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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by sebzim4500 on Friday March 31, 2023 @03:48PM (#35392494)
I doubt he thought he'd get any help for free, given I don't think you can run this code there isn't a meaningful way to contribute.

It's just about transparency or PR, take your pick.

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by undersuit on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:28PM (#35393142)
He literally tweeted:

"No doubt, many embarrassing issues will be discovered, but we will fix them fast!"

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by dmix on Friday March 31, 2023 @06:35PM (#35394683)
People noticing stuff is free work but it’s still different than getting PRs and actual solutions like a real OSS project. And that’s fine, people are doing it because they care or like the attention or outrage and all the other personal/social motivations.
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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by hutzlibu on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:25PM (#35393107)
"given I don't think you can run this code there isn't a meaningful way to contribute."

Hm, there is lots of code released, I would think that some of it, can be run and might be forked and useful in other context, but mainly it is a PR move, sure.

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