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What could Lemmy.ml do to avoid becoming the next Reddit after a decade? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by IverCoder@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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We all know about how Reddit closed-sourced back in 2017 and will be killing off third-party apps this July, what will Lemmy.ml do to avoid facing the same fate? Reddit started off like this (open, aiming for freedom) and it all went downhill from there.

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[–] Zagaroth@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All you have to do is retain ownership and never do an IPO.

Having shareholders in a public market makes a company go evil.

[–] Peter1986C@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Lemmy Devs are kind of hardcore MLs, AFAIK so I doubt they will ever have an IPO, lol.

[–] RadDevon@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What does “ML” mean in this context?

[–] Peter1986C@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Marxist-Leninist

Sorry for abbreviating in the previous reply, where this was not a wise thing to do.

[–] animist@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Marxist-Leninist