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Chris Trottier

Of course, even if Reddit was still open source and supported ActivityPub, I'd probably prefer Lemmy since they use an AGPL license.

20 Nov 2022 at 19:32 | Open on mastodon.social
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Sanlear

@atomicpoet In a way, it sounds like Reddit changed from Mastodon into Twitter. It’s just another Big Social company now. Wait until they go public as a company and have to answer to shareholders. I have a feeling it’s going to get ugly there.

20 Nov 2022 at 19:37 | Open on mastodon.social
Chris Trottier

@Sanlear I don't think a comparison of Twitter with Mastodon works:

1. Reddit has always been for-profit, Mastodon is non-profit
2. Corporations release open source software all the time -- probably most of them
3. Reddit was never de-centralized

20 Nov 2022 at 19:39 | Open on mastodon.social
Sanlear

@atomicpoet Fair points. It wasn’t a great analogy. In some ways Reddit has improved over the years. As you noted earlier they have strong mod tools. They’ve gotten rid of some truly vile subreddits.

But at the end of the day, as a profit oriented company, Redditors are the product. Reddit’s increasing its reliance on ads. And I feel that it will only get worse after the inevitable IPO.

20 Nov 2022 at 19:43 | Open on mastodon.social
Klaus

@atomicpoet Do you also like microblog.pub? I believe it is modular and easy to manage.

20 Nov 2022 at 21:10 | Open on muenchen.social
realcaseyrollins

I completely forgot that #Reddit was #FOSS! And in fact I think that old code, or a fork of it, is still used to host forums to this day.

Imagine if somebody forked it to support #ActivityPub…

Granted IMHO all #Fediverse forum platforms are going about this all wrong; instead of modelling their platforms after #Reddit, servers should be structured as communities in their own right. i.e. instead of a #Lemmy instance with communities for #Politics, #Gaming, Tech, #Sports etc., there should be a #politics instance, a #sports instance, etc. That might be hard to implement though.

I completely forgot that #Reddit was #FOSS! And in fact I think that old code, or a fork of it, is still used to host forums to this day.

Imagine if somebody forked it to support #ActivityPub…

Granted IMHO all #Fediverse forum platforms are going about this all wrong; instead of modelling their platforms after #Reddit, servers should be structured as communities in their own right. i.e. instead of a #Lemmy instance with communities for #Politics, #Gaming, Tech, #Sports etc., there should be a #politics

20 Nov 2022 at 22:16 | Open on social.teci.world
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