Community Engineer at CircleCI (formerly Developer Evangelist at CircleCI and Linode). U.S. Navy Veteran, Write the Docs NYC organizer. Mets fan for life.
Social networks gain users with having more users than other social networks, not with making their code public.
You're arguing against a different point, not one that I made in my post. I don't believe an open source clone of Twitter is the solution. My point is more about the maintainer of the software being a nonprofit or foundation. Not an individual or for-profit business.
Also, as I mentioned in my reply to generaltso, Mastodon (which I think is a cool piece of software) is not a Twitter clone. Though, I believe the founder said the general UI is inspired by Tweetdeck specifically.
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You're arguing against a different point, not one that I made in my post. I don't believe an open source clone of Twitter is the solution. My point is more about the maintainer of the software being a nonprofit or foundation. Not an individual or for-profit business.
Also, as I mentioned in my reply to
generaltso, Mastodon (which I think is a cool piece of software) is not a Twitter clone. Though, I believe the founder said the general UI is inspired by Tweetdeck specifically.