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reddit should have never been a company (midwest.social)
submitted 1 year ago by Thedogspaw@midwest.social to c/reddit@lemmy.ml
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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

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[–] Generator@lemmy.pt 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It was, Reddit was opensource, but they change that

https://m.slashdot.org/story/330779

[–] LedgeDrop@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] aponigricon@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Man I'm tempted to host an old Reddit clone that displays Fediverse content. You should even be able to use RES with it!

[–] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

and the video player is garbage.

[–] yoyolll@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

What the hell are those comments...

[–] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago

While reddit had an open api it was never open source reddit was always a company that was focused on making money