I don’t mean the recent selling API rights at absurd costs but when they went from open sourcish to closed.

  • @[email protected]
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    361 year ago

    If they go close source, other people will take the last version of the code and build on it

    • @SheeEttin
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      41 year ago

      Did anyone do that with reddit? It used to be open source too.

        • @SheeEttin
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          61 year ago

          Oh that reminds me, Voat happened. It wasn’t a code fork but a clone, and it was also filled with right-wing garbage.

          Tildes is still around too, but I think it’s got even less traction than lemmy.

        • @[email protected]
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          151 year ago

          Old reddit was just the old UI. IMO, old UI was way better than new UI.

          The reddit open source stuff was only a portion of the website and algorithm. I believe Voat and a few others might have glanced at that code. Last I looked it was still up on GitHub. https://github.com/reddit

    • @[email protected]OP
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      31 year ago

      I’m assumimg the same didn’t happen with reddit bc it was not federated. That right?

    • amio
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      11 year ago

      They can’t, at least not while complying with Lemmy’s AGPL license.