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Elon Musk announced the entire codebase of X/Twitter will be going open source (media.thebrainbin.org)
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Elon Musk announced the entire codebase of X/Twitter will be going open source

Source: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2077361679034118271

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[–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

The way I interpreted it was if Twitter made their codebase open source, then people could submit pull requests that would add AP federation, and have them merged. But there's surely room for different interpretations of the original comment.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    While I appreciate what you're saying, I don't really think the original comment we were discussing was open for interpretation. It was pretty specific about '...fork it and add[ing] activitypub integration.'

    That being said, I do think it's an interesting thought and I hadn't really considered pull requests to the original code base to add AP. I feel like the likelihood of that actually happening are probably pretty slim though. Would be curious to hear what other people thought about that possibility too.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago*

    You are probably right. I think i discounted "make a fork of twitter and get people to use it" as just dumb since Mastodon exists already, so couldn't possibly be what they meant.

    I'm going to hang my hat on how in github when you make a pull request, you have to fork the repo first :p

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