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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

No. The API debacle was fundamentally about money, after all. In the very unlikely event someone does something similarly one-sided and stupid with a fediverse offering, people will simply fork it or move to different ActivityPub compliant software. Neither is possible on Reddit, a proprietary, for-profit website.

[–] [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.

[–] [email protected] 6 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.