I laughed.

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    I said that leftists shouldn’t be doing open source platform development for libs and instead should be protecting lemmy with copyright so that libs can’t use it. I was yelled at, but I will die on that hill maintaining I was correct.

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        I’m not trying to like call the devs libs or anything, and I’m appreciative of their work. . I understand why intellectual property is bad, and how open source is useful for auditing. My argument is just that we don’t live in a world where leftists can do open source development and it won’t just be taken by libs to be used in ways other than how we intended it to be used.

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          We also don’t live in a world where leftists can trust a project that isn’t open source to not just be a Fed honeypot. Not that it’s safe to use Lemmy to organize anything real, but at least I know they aren’t leaking my IP to atomwaffen or those Florida Nazis.

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              yikes Lemmy does have a way to enable IP logging, right? At least IP addresses aren’t federated and our instance doesn’t log them. That’s some truly heinous stuff.

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            That’s why I said that I understand how it’s important for auditing. You can publish the code and still protect it with copyright. I suppose someone could still steal it, but that’s a few more hoops to jump through.