[HeckFeck]

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!

[dark-star]

There'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]

There 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]

The absolute state of FOSS communities in 2025. I'd rather teh good old days of pedantry, swearing and trolling instead.

[timcobb]

Why wouldn't a project like this be OSS? How do they expect to monetize? People buying dialtone subscriptions as a social network?

[johannes1234321]

Besides 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]

So what is the idea with something then? Build software and...?

[greyface-]

I'm unable to find the server, but it looks like they've released some protocol analysis tooling: https://github.com/iconidentify/wiretap