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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 w
by HeckFeck 9mo 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!
- timcobb 9mo agoWhy wouldn't a project like this be OSS? How do they expect to monetize? People buying dialtone subscriptions as a social network?
- johannes1234321 9mo agoBesides 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 * ...
- timcobb 9mo agoSo what is the idea with something then? Build software and...?
- greyface- 9mo agoI'm unable to find the server, but it looks like they've released some protocol analysis tooling: https://github.com/iconidentify/wiretap https://github.com/iconidentify/wiretap
- dark-star 9mo agoThere'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 9mo agoThere 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.
- HeckFeck 9mo agoThe absolute state of FOSS communities in 2025. I'd rather teh good old days of pedantry, swearing and trolling instead.