#openwashing — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #openwashing, aggregated by home.social.
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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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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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@SuperDicq @sun
>Like I don't know what the fuck lawmakers are smoking honestly. If you take a copyrighted work and digest it through a neural network that (makes it) a derivative work.Are lawmakers actually considering allowing theft(*)? The micros(ha)ft-sponsored Open Source Initiative (#OSI) are #openwashing the theft, so its not as crazy a question as it sounds. thankfully there are people documenting the crime^ albeit with soft language.
People who resist have also liked Digital Feudalism Counter Action firewall for linux (#iptables).
* theft perpetrated by their state-sponsored corporate sponsors (yes is circular). Aside from the theft of intellectual property from the internet, all "ai" systems are served by the corporate state right now. That's goog, micros(ha)ft, scamazon, clodflare, falsebook, I've not seen a SINGLE one that isn't designed to invade a person's privacy on behalf of the digital slavers. Every time u use an "ai" system u are giving the #corporateState irrevocable power and control over u, your thought processes, and all the people u love and who love u.... well done
^ Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters (D.Widder et al, 5 December 2024)
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#lifehacking si vous voulez que votre code soit fusionné à un dépôt open source, causez davantage avec les gens qui gèrent le dépôt avant de coder quoi que ce soit.
et passez au moins autant de temps à causer qu'à coder, sans quoi les chances de fusionner risquent d'être très faibles.
on ne dirait pas comme ça mais l'open source c'est bien plus de discussions que de code.
et pour les mainteneurs, aidez les gens à contribuer en baissant les barrières à l'entrée de la participation, n'attendez pas que du code comme contribution, sinon vous faites juste de l'open washing quand vous dites "les pull request sont bienvenues, RTFM". -
It might be time for a broad (and thoughtful) conversation on the limits of openness, in the #OpenEcosystem? How do #OpenGovernment and #OpenData work within the #FreeSoftware framework? Do #OERs run the risk of promoting #fauxpen and #OpenWashing?
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It might be time for a broad (and thoughtful) conversation on the limits of openness, in the #OpenEcosystem? How do #OpenGovernment and #OpenData work within the #FreeSoftware framework? Do #OERs run the risk of promoting #fauxpen and #OpenWashing?
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Need to #launderYourPersonality?
If you have billions? Donate a tiny part of your #printedMoney to a project, then have #corporateMedia fawn over your #charity. Govt need not apply.
Only a millionaire? Appear on a #houseHunting show and fawn over light and bright spaces and other details, as outlined in the #script.
#openWashing #survivalPorn #disasterPorn #culturalMasters #lordsAndSerfs #GAFAM #branding #Murdoch #PR #houseHunters #BigProperty #virtueSignal #payoff #payout #payday