I don’t think lemmy as a whole can be sold out to Facebook since it’s open source, right? (Also why it’s not a total dealbreaker for me that the original devs are tankies, since they won’t be profiting off us using it.)
I don’t think lemmy as a whole can be sold out to Facebook since it’s open source, right?
Yes, but lemmy is even more resilient. It is licensed as AGPL-3.0.
That is a copyleft license which requires anyone using the code publicly (e.g. to run a proprietary server) to make their code public and permit free usage of it. And they must not change the license.
I don’t see the point of buying something which is already freely available to everybody, especially since you are not allowed to hide it, even partially, or modify the free nature of it.
What could more reasonably be sold is data, visibility and userbase (big, active instances).
@Guy_Fieris_Hair I doubt that lemmy.ml or lemmy as a whole would sell-out to Facebook as they are Tankies.
How can a piece of open source software be “a tankie”. An instance might be run by one.
Why do I keep seeing people say this in passing without any sort of evidence. Feels like reddit/Twitter type of culture
Here’s a pretty good compilation of the evidence.
I don’t think lemmy as a whole can be sold out to Facebook since it’s open source, right? (Also why it’s not a total dealbreaker for me that the original devs are tankies, since they won’t be profiting off us using it.)
Yes, but lemmy is even more resilient. It is licensed as AGPL-3.0.
That is a copyleft license which requires anyone using the code publicly (e.g. to run a proprietary server) to make their code public and permit free usage of it. And they must not change the license.
I don’t see the point of buying something which is already freely available to everybody, especially since you are not allowed to hide it, even partially, or modify the free nature of it.
What could more reasonably be sold is data, visibility and userbase (big, active instances).