#openwashing — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #openwashing, aggregated by home.social.
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A fluff view of current tech we need to compost (about W Social)
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A fluff view of current tech we need to compost (about W Social)
This story is #openwashing, not innovation. “New European social network” is actually a fork of #Bluesky wrapped in sovereignty language, as Elena Rossini says with the same #dotcons logic – PR-first launch (Davos), reality comes later (or never). This tech mess illustrates, if people start with branding, funding, and media narrative instead of community and process, it’s not #openweb – it’s #closedweb in a mask, when people ignore existing commons is easy to see the red flag.
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A fluff view of current tech we need to compost (about W Social)
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A fluff view of current tech we need to compost (about W Social)
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A fluff view of current tech we need to compost (about W Social)
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A fluff view of current tech we need to compost
You know, when people are heading over a cliff, I'm more than happy to be "left behind". This story is #openwashing, not innovation. “New European social network” is actually a fork of #Bluesky wrapped in sovereignty language, as Elena Rossini says with the same #dotcons logic - PR-first launch (Davos), reality comes later (or never). This tech mess illustrates, if people start with branding, funding, and media narrative instead of community and process, it’s not #openweb - it’s […]https://hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-view-of-current-tech-we-need-to-compost/
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A fluff view of current tech we need to compost
You know, when people are heading over a cliff, I'm more than happy to be "left behind". This story is #openwashing, not innovation. “New European social network” is actually a fork of #Bluesky wrapped in sovereignty language, as Elena Rossini says with the same #dotcons logic - PR-first launch (Davos), reality comes later (or never). This tech mess illustrates is if people start with branding, funding, and media narrative instead of community and process, it’s not #openweb - it’s […]https://hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-view-of-current-tech-we-need-to-compost/
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A fluff view of current tech we need to compost
This story is #openwashing, not innovation. “New European social network” → actually a fork of #Bluesky wrapped in sovereignty language, with the same #dotcons logic. PR-first launch (Davos), reality comes later (or never). What this tech mess illustrates is if people start with branding, funding, and media narrative instead of community and process, it’s not #openweb - it’s #closedweb in a mask, ignoring existing commons is an easy to see the red flag. Why is this a mess? […]https://hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-view-of-current-tech-we-need-to-compost/
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A fluff view of current tech we need to compost
This story is #openwashing, not innovation. “New European social network” → actually a fork of #Bluesky wrapped in sovereignty language, with the same #dotcons logic. PR-first launch (Davos), reality comes later (or never). What this tech mess illustrates is if people start with branding, funding, and media narrative instead of community and process, it’s not #openweb - it’s #closedweb in a mask, ignoring existing commons is an easy to see the red flag. Why is this a mess? […]https://hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-view-of-current-tech-we-need-to-compost/
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A fluff view of current tech we need to compost
You know, when people are heading over a cliff, I'm more than happy to be "left behind". This story is #openwashing, not innovation. “New European social network” is actually a fork of #Bluesky wrapped in sovereignty language, as Elena Rossini says with the same #dotcons logic - PR-first launch (Davos), reality comes later (or never). This tech mess illustrates, if people start with branding, funding, and media narrative instead of community and process, it’s not #openweb - it’s […]https://hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-view-of-current-tech-we-need-to-compost/
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Damn Israel and damn the war a thousand times! All the aid that entered was cigarettes 🚬, and hospitals and clinics lack medicine and disinfectants, as well as basic food supplies. If it had entered, prices would have decreased. 😡😡😡😡😡
This is their policy of genocide in all its forms; a state of evil and terrorism.
@gazaverified @aral @fabio#Gaza #palestine #genocide #Israel #freepalestine #freeGaza #fyp #help #helpingfamilies #Urgent #MutualAidBoost #openwashing
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Damn Israel and damn the war a thousand times! All the aid that entered was cigarettes 🚬, and hospitals and clinics lack medicine and disinfectants, as well as basic food supplies. If it had entered, prices would have decreased. 😡😡😡😡😡
This is their policy of genocide in all its forms; a state of evil and terrorism.
@gazaverified @aral @fabio#Gaza #palestine #genocide #Israel #freepalestine #freeGaza #fyp #help #helpingfamilies #Urgent #MutualAidBoost #openwashing
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Damn Israel and damn the war a thousand times! All the aid that entered was cigarettes 🚬, and hospitals and clinics lack medicine and disinfectants, as well as basic food supplies. If it had entered, prices would have decreased. 😡😡😡😡😡
This is their policy of genocide in all its forms; a state of evil and terrorism.
@gazaverified @aral @fabio#Gaza #palestine #genocide #Israel #freepalestine #freeGaza #fyp #help #helpingfamilies #Urgent #MutualAidBoost #openwashing
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Damn Israel and damn the war a thousand times! All the aid that entered was cigarettes 🚬, and hospitals and clinics lack medicine and disinfectants, as well as basic food supplies. If it had entered, prices would have decreased. 😡😡😡😡😡
This is their policy of genocide in all its forms; a state of evil and terrorism.
@gazaverified @aral @fabio#Gaza #palestine #genocide #Israel #freepalestine #freeGaza #fyp #help #helpingfamilies #Urgent #MutualAidBoost #openwashing
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Hablemos un poco del «Open Washing», la práctica de publicar tecnología, software o IA como si fuera de código abierto o software libre cuando realmente no lo es. Redis, Terraform,
ElasticSearch o Android son algunos ejemplos de esto. Sabrán disculpar la calidad del audio, se me rompió el 🎙️ cuando empecé a grabar este episodio.#podcast #opensource #softwarelibre #openwashing #codigoabierto
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Hablemos un poco del «Open Washing», la práctica de publicar tecnología, software o IA como si fuera de código abierto o software libre cuando realmente no lo es. Redis, Terraform,
ElasticSearch o Android son algunos ejemplos de esto. Sabrán disculpar la calidad del audio, se me rompió el 🎙️ cuando empecé a grabar este episodio.#podcast #opensource #softwarelibre #openwashing #codigoabierto
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Hablemos un poco del «Open Washing», la práctica de publicar tecnología, software o IA como si fuera de código abierto o software libre cuando realmente no lo es. Redis, Terraform,
ElasticSearch o Android son algunos ejemplos de esto. Sabrán disculpar la calidad del audio, se me rompió el 🎙️ cuando empecé a grabar este episodio.#podcast #opensource #softwarelibre #openwashing #codigoabierto
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Hablemos un poco del «Open Washing», la práctica de publicar tecnología, software o IA como si fuera de código abierto o software libre cuando realmente no lo es. Redis, Terraform,
ElasticSearch o Android son algunos ejemplos de esto. Sabrán disculpar la calidad del audio, se me rompió el 🎙️ cuando empecé a grabar este episodio.#podcast #opensource #softwarelibre #openwashing #codigoabierto
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Hablemos un poco del «Open Washing», la práctica de publicar tecnología, software o IA como si fuera de código abierto o software libre cuando realmente no lo es. Redis, Terraform,
ElasticSearch o Android son algunos ejemplos de esto. Sabrán disculpar la calidad del audio, se me rompió el 🎙️ cuando empecé a grabar este episodio.#podcast #opensource #softwarelibre #openwashing #codigoabierto
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Do you remember the surprise announcement of a new social network in Davos this past January? Something that promised to be the "first" European social network?
Its name is #WSocial and it's a fork of #Bluesky. Its founders have ties with European politicians - but there is no official involvement by the EU.
You wouldn't know any of this from media reports because they all rehashed their talking points. So I wrote a post about it, dispelling some myths:
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
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Programme die sich als Opensource verkaufen dessen backend aber ein blob ist oder im Internet läuft, auch so eine sache. #Foss #openwashing
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It didn't take very long...
Special thanks to @mactunag for giving me a heads-up about Bluesky's message on X from November 2025
Sources:
1: https://x.com/bluesky/status/19915137315416477332: https://bsky.app/profile/jay.bsky.team/post/3mi5pwoncqs2g
What I find particularly egregious is that Bluesky already had a custom feed builder: #Graze was an independent project that had proved to be super popular. They had raised a million dollars just last year! They even sponsored the AtmosphereConf last week. Then Bluesky PBC steamrolled over them and announced their own project - Attie - powered by AI... at AtmosphereConf (the event where Graze was listed as a major sponsor - you can't make this up).
A developer for ATProto was horrified by this, writing:
"Why would anyone fund an Atmosphere project if Bluesky, with $100 million in the bank, might ship a competing feature at any moment? Why would a founder bet their career on this ecosystem? The presentation didn't just hurt Graze. It made the entire ecosystem look unfundable."
🔗: https://trezy.com/blog/the-marshmallow-test
I am getting A LOT of heat for pointing out shady behaviors by Bluesky PBC. Even from Fedi friends. But I think it's important to be wide-eyed and consider all this mounting evidence of problematic behavior.
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Gerade diskutiert @spinfocl die verschiedenen Aspekte von Offenheit bei LLMs: Gewichte, Inferencing Code, Trainingsdaten, Trainingslogik.
https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition
https://isitopen.ai/
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.15802
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neue Folge im #Podcast "The Future is Open Science": "Open Washing: Randphänomen oder gängige Praxis?" https://podcast.zbw.eu/fos/2026/02/19/fos-57-open-washing/
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This product looks really cool. Too bad it's *not open source*. They claim they will distribute the design files under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, NC stands for noncommercial, so it's not open source. The design is also patented, which (AFAIK) means it's illegal to make this printer without their permission.
I would have much preferred CERN-OHL-S, which explicitly gives you patent rights.
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"Open" LLM models are almost never Open Source.
They are "Open Weights." This means the company allows you to run the model, but you have no right to see how it was made or what data it was trained on.
We need to stop letting companies redefine "Open Source" to mean "available for download." Words have meanings.
If a company claims they are open source but plans to "someday" release the code, or hides the training data, they are a poser. This is "Open Washing." They are co-opting the term to earn the community's goodwill for marketing without actually respecting the four freedoms.
#NoAI #FOSS #OpenSource #GNULinux #GNU #Linux #Privacy #OpenWashing #OpenWeights #OpenWashing #NotOpenSource #TechEthics #FreeSoftware #Fediverse #AIHype #Enshittification #DigitalSovereignty
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@iX_Magazin "Visio basiert auf Open-Source-Komponenten" klinkt verdächtig nach Open Washing? Wo gibt es den Code von dem Projekt selbst?
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Ach, nur Konzernnamen aus dem Westen?
Kann es sein, dass es hier streng nach #OpenWashing riecht?
Eine investigative Recherche von @heiseonline wäre hier Mega-interessant!
Da #OpenSource global ist, deutet eine Eingrenzung auf den Westen imo schon eine Fehlstellung an, die uns Kunden und Community entmündigt und den Wettbewerb behindert.
Im B2B-Bereich haben chinesische Unternehmen ein intrinsisches Interesse an #FOSS, auch wegen der Diskriminierung durch die #USA.
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@adamsteer @fletch @fionag11 Not #OpenData neither, the dataset is CC-By-NC-SA and the Non-Commercial clause makes it non-free, and adds up legal uncertainty since "non-commercial" is nowhere to be defined legally. #OpenWashing
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But sir, the Shackle Maker 2000™ by Shackle Corp® is open source. You could, theoretically, use it to make more than shackles.
#CorporateOpenSource #openSource #openAsInOpenForBusiness #BigTech #openWashing #FOSS
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But sir, the Shackle Maker 2000™ by Shackle Corp® is open source. You could, theoretically, use it to make more than shackles.
#CorporateOpenSource #openSource #openAsInOpenForBusiness #BigTech #openWashing #FOSS
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But sir, the Shackle Maker 2000™ by Shackle Corp® is open source. You could, theoretically, use it to make more than shackles.
#CorporateOpenSource #openSource #openAsInOpenForBusiness #BigTech #openWashing #FOSS
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But sir, the Shackle Maker 2000™ by Shackle Corp® is open source. You could, theoretically, use it to make more than shackles.
#CorporateOpenSource #openSource #openAsInOpenForBusiness #BigTech #openWashing #FOSS
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But sir, the Shackle Maker 2000™ by Shackle Corp® is open source. You could, theoretically, use it to make more than shackles.
#CorporateOpenSource #openSource #openAsInOpenForBusiness #BigTech #openWashing #FOSS
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@kubikpixel #openwashing unter Special Mentions:
"LanguageTool was based in Germany until it was acquired by a US-based company a couple of years ago. Since then, there have been privacy concerns raised by a few enthusiasts."
-> wer nicht selber lokal einen LanguageTool server betreiben will oder kann, der liefert den zu überprüfenden Text an eine US-based company! -
El que sea código abierto no quita lo colonialista, lo capitalista, lo depredador y el impacto ambiental.
Es más, hay un concepto, "#openwashing" que explica como muchos de estas empresas se disfrazan de código abierto cuando no lo son.
Te recomiendo que mires los impactos ecosociales de las cadenas de suministro de la IA en el planeta y las comunidades.
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@stargirl has simplified the Open Community License (OCL) from Prusa
➡️ https://github.com/theacodes/socl#3dprinting #prusa #ocl #socl #OpenSource #copyright #openwashing #opensourcewashing
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_m/115736557792709233
TIL: Der #OpenDesk, eine Distribution und Anpassung diverser "Open Source" Projekte, leidet auch unter dem #OpenWashing des #OpenCore Geschäftsmodells
Es gibt eine "Enterprise Edition" unter proprietärer Lizenz. 🤡
Die bündelt dann vor allem die jeweiligen Enterprise-Lizenzen der einzelnen proprietären Bestandteile. Ob das noch #PublicMoneyPublicCode ist, halte ich dennoch für diskussionswürdig.Die Zendis GmbH ist dabei übrigens 100%ige Tochter des Innenministeriums.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_m/115736557792709233
TIL: Der #OpenDesk, eine Distribution und Anpassung diverser "Open Source" Projekte, leidet auch unter dem #OpenWashing des #OpenCore Geschäftsmodells
Es gibt eine "Enterprise Edition" unter proprietärer Lizenz. 🤡
Die bündelt dann vor allem die jeweiligen Enterprise-Lizenzen der einzelnen proprietären Bestandteile. Ob das noch #PublicMoneyPublicCode ist, halte ich dennoch für diskussionswürdig.Die Zendis GmbH ist dabei übrigens 100%ige Tochter des Innenministeriums.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_m/115736557792709233
TIL: Der #OpenDesk, eine Distribution und Anpassung diverser "Open Source" Projekte, leidet auch unter dem #OpenWashing des #OpenCore Geschäftsmodells
Es gibt eine "Enterprise Edition" unter proprietärer Lizenz. 🤡
Die bündelt dann vor allem die jeweiligen Enterprise-Lizenzen der einzelnen proprietären Bestandteile. Ob das noch #PublicMoneyPublicCode ist, halte ich dennoch für diskussionswürdig.Die Zendis GmbH ist dabei übrigens 100%ige Tochter des Innenministeriums.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_m/115736557792709233
TIL: Der #OpenDesk, eine Distribution und Anpassung diverser "Open Source" Projekte, leidet auch unter dem #OpenWashing des #OpenCore Geschäftsmodells
Es gibt eine "Enterprise Edition" unter proprietärer Lizenz. 🤡
Die bündelt dann vor allem die jeweiligen Enterprise-Lizenzen der einzelnen proprietären Bestandteile. Ob das noch #PublicMoneyPublicCode ist, halte ich dennoch für diskussionswürdig.Die Zendis GmbH ist dabei übrigens 100%ige Tochter des Innenministeriums.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_m/115736557792709233
TIL: Der #OpenDesk, eine Distribution und Anpassung diverser "Open Source" Projekte, leidet auch unter dem #OpenWashing des #OpenCore Geschäftsmodells
Es gibt eine "Enterprise Edition" unter proprietärer Lizenz. 🤡
Die bündelt dann vor allem die jeweiligen Enterprise-Lizenzen der einzelnen proprietären Bestandteile. Ob das noch #PublicMoneyPublicCode ist, halte ich dennoch für diskussionswürdig.Die Zendis GmbH ist dabei übrigens 100%ige Tochter des Innenministeriums.
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RE: https://podcasts.social/@engkiosk/115697063402130187
Gerade erschienen: FSFE Policy Project Manager @johas spricht im @engkiosk ausführlich über #PublicCode im deutschsprachigen Raum.
Warum bekommen wir digitale Souveränität nur mit Freier Software? Welche Rolle spielt der #DeutschlandStack? Wo können sich @Bundesregierung und @BMDS gerade #Österreich zum Vorbild nehmen? Wie kann Freie Software strategisch beschafft werden? Wie gefährlich ist #Openwashing?
📻 Die Episode könnt ihr hier hören: https://engineeringkiosk.dev/podcast/episode/232-public-money-public-code-mit-johannes-n%C3%A4der-von-der-free-software-foundation-europe
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Open source понарошку? Продолжающийся переход на source available, а также набирающий обороты феномен openwashing
Недавно мы в
https://habr.com/ru/companies/beeline_cloud/articles/967946/
#open_source #openwashing #source_available #лицензии #открытый_код
