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Is it possible Lemmy's API changes the way reddits did? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually... Reddit was open source until 2017.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit
But the rest of your comment still stands.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I stand (partly) corrected, then. Apparently not all of it was (and it stopped being so long before it would've been relevant), but still, didn't even know that.