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Re:Long live personal websites, Let's make the web personal ... by wongmjane on Monday November 14, 2022 @09:39AM (#33594532)
The source code is really similar

Not seeing Brian Lovin’s name in the LICENSE file in Nym either...

Re:Long live personal websites, Let's make the web personal ... by lyptt on Monday November 14, 2022 @09:53AM (#33594779)
Looks like they've claimed Brian Lovin's work as their own, judging by this commit:

https://github.com/Nym-HQ/nym/commit/3dda085064e745bd43f8b05...

Re:Long live personal websites, Let's make the web personal ... by CaptArmchair on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:44AM (#33595646)
Yup. 10 commits, first commit was just 4 days ago. Same with their public website & docs. On Github, it's all barely 4 days old.

Brian Lovin has released his work under the MIT license. AFAIK I believe this leaves it open to others to take the code and just run with it.

Even so, looking at their value proposition, it's just a landing page that leads to https://nymhq.com/join where you can subscribe to a "waiting list" to join a server. They claim "Nym is currently in private beta with limited servers, but is accepting waitlist requests now."

The "showcase" on the front page are just content fodder (AI? Web 2/3/5?) with quick, unstyled instances of their blogging software. The rest of that landing page seems to contain a lot of fluff as well.

Frankly, I'm extremely apprehensive about supporting this.

Re:Long live personal websites, Let's make the web personal ... by trampish on Monday November 14, 2022 @11:16AM (#33596252)
Re:Long live personal websites, Let's make the web personal ... by wongmjane on Monday November 14, 2022 @11:20AM (#33596333)
After being caught, they called erasing Brian Lovin’s credit from the LICENSE file as “A huge oversight on our part”

https://twitter.com/nym_hq/status/1592176933445701633

Re:Long live personal websites, Let's make the web personal ... by NickBusey on Monday November 14, 2022 @12:09PM (#33597247)
Had this happen to one of my projects. Someone decided to remove my name from the LICENSE file on their fork. I called them out on it, and they put it back, saying it was a "mistake".

The only thing in the original commit was removing my name. Hard to believe that could occur accidentally.