Jack said twitter should have never been a company but thats even more true for reddit who’s whole businesses model is based on unpaid volunteers lemmy is what reddit should have always been community owned and community supported and open source
It was, Reddit was opensource, but they change that
I didn’t know it was open source until 2018. According to the article, they needed to go close-sourced due to the video player (lol)
… But you can find the original source code at: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit1.0
I really wonder if this is the code for https://old.reddit.com
Man I’m tempted to host an old Reddit clone that displays Fediverse content. You should even be able to use RES with it!
While reddit had an open api it was never open source reddit was always a company that was focused on making money
I figure the VC money pushed them to find ways to grow and make money at all cost
Investors don’t care about the company they just want constantly growing return on there investments which ultimately ends with the company doing increasingly amti consumer practices
Lemmy is what aaron would’ve wanted.
Honestly mastodon works better than I expected with instances but Reddit was really the perfect candidate for the fediverse. You subscribe to communities which are independently managed and you avoid any contact with communities that seems harmful to you. Don’t care where the community is hosted, you just want the content