haha imagine, foss twitter
no seriously, its 'foss' now ... not rlly but still
ill be talking about the the-algorithm repo mainly, but this applies to both of those repos
as an open source developer, this is as useful as not seeing the source code lmao
both of those repos are nothing more than a corporate stunt, a joke, nothing better than a 'haha look were cool and hip now, now pls give us ur data uwu', its just another example to show that companies dont care about you and just are there to make money, you know like, the paperclip problem, basically 'if you train an AI to optimise for paperclip production it will get so efficient it will just turn the whole earth into a paperclip factory killing off all life', this is the same shit, but for companies, optimising for money, they dont care about anything moral, just immoral pieces of shit
twitter, just like nvidia, pushed a single commit with half a mil lines of code, no docs, barely a readme, no commit history, nothing, literally bare source code, nobody is going to read that and thats probably what twitter wants, they just want to seem 'hip, cool and one of the youngsters', you know, like that meme, its just annoying how companies do this
in my pov, twitter is doing this for the following reasons
- gaining some trust ( even though its false trust )
- people trust open source software more, but as you can see its not rlly foss plus the shit that is foss is vile, both code-wise and content-wise, you can see just how much data it collects, how biased it is and only confirms that twitter is meant to be a breeding ground for toxicity, thats how it stays relevant -- toxicity and drama, now imagine what goes on in the proprietary parts ...
- free work
- for those that actually want to help this bullshit of a product this will be unpaid labour for musky husky uwu ( tm ), he expects people to just work for him because companies are pieces of shit who dont know how to foss
- to seem cool
- foss is the new cool, quirky and youngsters hip thing to companies, but the think is they dont know how to foss, they think foss is just purely releasing the bare source code with 0 commit history, no docs, barely a readme and complete idiocy, they went into open source completely unprepared, looked like complete clowns ( by once again, not knowing how to foss ) and now barely are able to do any work on the actual projects
these are only few reasons most likely, but even then it just shows how much of a cringeworthy corporate stunt this is, this is nothing more than another marketing scheme than to just shove their product deeper in yalls asses
companies are fucking weird, disgusting and generally bad, take discord, twitter, google, microsoft ( yes ik i use github but stfu ), amazon, alphabet, ... just name any company and youll find mountains of garbage about them
anyway, rant overish, this hopefully explains how cringeworthy this whole 'haha twitter foss' thing is, why me and many others are more than comfortable trolling abt it and before i go -- TELL MUSKY HUSKY TO ADD TINA
goodbye, dont be as stupid as twitter :)