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Lett Osprey :v_pan: :v_enby: 🍉 :therian:@lettosprey@tech.lgbt (2026-09-29 03:58:51)
@wouter Stepping away from the evil giants and into the world of FOSS is frequently done to get away from, well, putting money and power into the evil giants.

Basically feeing into the arms of the evil giants with your FOSS projects that you have built up a user base from to "escape" this, is a bit of a betrayal.. No, not just a bit.

Many donate money to support projects that are seen as anti-big-tech, and it sucks when these projects start feeding into what bigtech wants you to do. 
@xgranade
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Wouter Verhelst@wouter@pleroma.debian.social (2026-09-29 04:50:28)
@lettosprey
Am I correct in stating that it's more an anti-big tech position, then? That makes more sense to me.

I don't think it's entirely an accurate position, as it would imply that (a) only big tech can run LLMs, and (b) all of FLOSS is anti-big tech, both of which I believe are accurate statements, but I can better understand that position of that's what it is.
@xgranade

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Lett Osprey :v_pan: :v_enby: 🍉 :therian:@lettosprey@tech.lgbt (2026-09-29 05:33:18)
@wouter Pixelfed was built as an alternative to Instagram, an escape from the grip of Meta, no, not all of FOSS is anti-big-tech, there are FOSS project that plays directly into the slop fest from day one, but Pixelfed was an escape.

They are also one of the ones to have fallen into this more than most of the larger FOSS projects.

You don't need to understand every ones position on this. We are getting fed up and many are too tired to explain over and over.

It doesn't matter that "big tech are not the only ones that can...", when projects use their LLM's, opens to use their LLM's, and become ad-board for their LLM's so investors toss more money at them.

The "run at home" LLM's are not exactly much to get excited about.

Anyway, I will not respond further. It's getting so tiresome. 
@xgranade