People don't realize that Reddit *used* to be open source. https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
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Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Nov-2022 07:02:31 JST Chris Trottier
- Ken Sugar ☑️ and まりぞう ☑ repeated this.
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Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Nov-2022 07:02:34 JST Chris Trottier
Another thing people find surprising:
Self-hosted Reddit servers used to be commonplace.
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Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Nov-2022 07:03:38 JST Chris Trottier
Now imagine if ActivityPub existed when Reddit was open source.
Well, we don't have to imagine it. There's Lemmy.
But my point is that every self-hosted Reddit install could have been federated if ActivityPub existed back then.
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