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
Man I'm tempted to host an old Reddit clone that displays Fediverse content. You should even be able to use RES with it!
and the video player is garbage.
While reddit had an open api it was never open source reddit was always a company that was focused on making money
Being a company was fine. Having outside investors, shitty leadership, and a lack of common fucking sense was the problem.
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
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
Lemmy is what aaron would've wanted.