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HeckFeck | 2 months ago

Have they open sourced the server? Revival projects should always do this, otherwise they are preserving nothing. A single point of failure means someone else will have to reverse-engineer the protocol and write the server software again in the future. Do it for posterity!

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dark-star|2 months ago

There's another project, P3OL, that's also closed-source. I assume they're connected somehow.

P3OL makes 100€/month through Patreon, I guess that is also this project's reason to stay closed-source

xcrunner529|2 months ago

There was Nina too and then they destroyed the discord over a weirdo pedo mod and took down the website. Also closed source because they’re also selfish.

timcobb|2 months ago

Why wouldn't a project like this be OSS? How do they expect to monetize? People buying dialtone subscriptions as a social network?

johannes1234321|2 months ago

Besides monetization there are other factors for not open sourcing.

* fear of being critizied for bad code

* not wanting to deal with contributions

* license compliance (maybe using something commercial, maybe trying to hide bad license usage)

* trying to keep control

* missing understanding of open source in general

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