I can see a whole lot of people agreeing with this. Kinda the same with open source in general, but few open source projects are social protocols seeking widespread adoption. It's a particular flavor of narrative disconnection from reality we have to bridge out of to get out of our own way.
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Every @proto developer sounds like this to me:
Aug 14, 2026 at 12:49 AM
I hate the term “open source”
It doesn’t accurately reflect how people are building today anymore.
Open source engagement in organizations
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Open Source or Open Core: Why Should You Care?
Open source software has gained its significant foothold because the community development model works everywhere. Its momentum has moved it into the underlying infrastructure of some of the most sophisticated web scale companies, like Facebook and Google. Open source underpinnings now drive many of the most significant advances in the worlds of cloud and big data.
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The open source community that embraces designers most, wins.
That’s my theory. Here’s my reasoning:
Emelia (@thisismissem.social)
It's pretty funny how everyone has seemingly forgotten why W Social went closed source: initially they were open source, and various people from the community looked through their fork of the bluesky codebases, and went "lol wat no".
Degrees of Open Source
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Open Source is Not Enough
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The social contract of open source
Even though I gave a keynote [https://youtu.be/tzFWz5fiVKU?t=48m55s]with an accompanying blog post [https://snarky.ca/setting-expectations-for-open-source-participation/] all about setting expectations for open source participation, I felt it was time to do another blog post to directly address the issue of
Open Source is Broken
The Open Source movement, as championed by the OSI, prizes absolute openness above all other concerns...
