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reddit should have never been a company (midwest.social)
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Jack said twitter should have never been a company but thats even more true for reddit who's whole businesses model is based on unpaid volunteers lemmy is what reddit should have always been community owned and community supported and open source

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

and the video player is garbage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Man I'm tempted to host an old Reddit clone that displays Fediverse content. You should even be able to use RES with it!