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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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[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Classic EEE. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

I admit I didn’t pay attention in the last when big tech would do this.

[–] cavemeat@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

This is...hmm. I hadn't even thought of this.