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Is it possible Lemmy's API changes the way reddits did? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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

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[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know of https://github.com/CrystalVulpine/saidit. Unfortunately the site (saidit.net) is full of right-wing/conspiracy bullshit, at least last I checked.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 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.

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I assumed thats what old.reddit was. But idk

[–] TunaLobster@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 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

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] zzzzz@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Was Reddit ever open source?

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup. Not a lot of people remember this but it also used to be written in LISP.

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure it was for a few years. Stopped in 2008 as far as i know

[–] amio@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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