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   Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Nov-2022 07:02:31 JST Chris Trottier

   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 07:02:34 JST Chris Trottier

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     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

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     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.