It was, Reddit was opensource, but they change that
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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What the hell are those comments...
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
and the video player is garbage.
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
Yes. It feels weird, convoluted, and ripe for corruption when human interaction is monetized. It's just unnatural imo.
Now I get that there is infrastructure that needs to he handled on their end, but we seem to be doing fine. I think alot of people here appreciate the effort, and find that being apart of something feels good and worth it enough to keep it going on donation, fund drive style, community events based funding.
It helps that the cost per user isn't that high you for small and medium sized the instance owner can generally just pay out of pocket and the larger instances can just ask for a dollar a user and have more than enough money to pay for there instance
Lemmy is what aaron would've wanted.
Being a company was fine. Having outside investors, shitty leadership, and a lack of common fucking sense was the problem.
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
Reddit used to be open source. They closed the source years ago.
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