Open-sourcing the Micro.blog apps manton.org
@manton oh wow. This is great. Not an Apple platform developer, so Iâm not likely to contribute, but love that others can be a part and the expansion of the community aspects of Micro.blog.
@manton Very happy to hear youâve taken this step. Iâm looking forward to developers taking advantage of it to the benefit of us users.
@manton Hmmm, that's certainly a surprise! I wonder whether Belle B. Cooper will come back once she hears about it. That's what she wanted. Maybe she will be able to develop her own community much faster with this help.
But what I'd like to know the most of anything is Whatever happened to Smokey??? He was a huge asset to micro.blog and one day he just disappeared. What happened? His loss is a huge loss to the community.
@manton Wowowowow! This is huge, sir! Thanks for this. My kickstarter backing just keeps on giving. :)
@manton Really stoked by this. Congrats on open sourcing. Itâs not an easy thing to do (esp for projects that start private).
Canât wait to see whatâs coming for M.b!
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@manton You could send him an email and ask him whether he's okay. He might reply. Maybe he would even come back if he realized someone gives a shit?
@Ron It makes no sense for the person who owns and operates the majority of an entire platform to send out emails to individuals.
I understand your frustrations and believe me when I say I also wish we could summon a group of Micro.blog employees to add to the existing team (talk about a fantastic job to do, honestly, I wish I could do it) in an instant but unfortunately that doesnât seem possible right now and we just have to have patience and do what we can in the meantime.
@simonwoods I'm glad you're still here, Simon. Good luck with your new adventures!
Much respect for what you wrote. But I wasn't suggesting or recommending emails. ONE EMAIL. That is what I had in mind.
My apologies if I've offended anyone, Smokey included. He earned my respect in many ways. đ
@manton this is great news. Can I ask however why you didnât choose GNU Affero General Public License. I personally find the open source licenses have the potential to contribute much less to the eco system of great software as they can be wrapped inside proprietary licenses. I wrote a bit about this please note this is very much draft draft manifold.soton.ac.uk/read/thes...
@adamprocter I know there are strong opinions on many licenses (especially in WordPress), but I personally don't want to limit how people might want to use it in commercial software, which historically GPL and LGPL has made very difficult or impossible. I'm not sure how AGPL differs, though.
@manton đ - AGPL doesnât stop âcommercialâ use but it does stop wrapping inside proprietary software - related discursive.adamprocter.co.uk/2021/06/1...
@adamprocter The AGPL has the same sharing requirements as the GPL, and additionally requires that if you modify AGPL-licensed software that runs on a server, you must make the modified version available under GPL-like terms. I worked for a few years at a company that used the AGPL for their main product and intended to make money by selling enterprise level support, and the license ended up being a huge sticking point for some customersâthey just won't touch it.
@chipotle yes the business model needs to be figured out first if you go AGPL. Which @manton has done but the fact that future products canât use this code inside proprietary software has a more positive impact to the wider software eco system. Thatâs my current thoughts on it. However I am very pleased we can see the now open code for micro.blog products
@adamprocter Thanks soooo much, Adam. I tried it and it did not bounce. So at least I got to send him some communication. I had read that page, but did not see the email address.
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@jasonekratz Yes. Manton likely has his snail mail address & phone number, but I doubt he would cooperate.