Chris TrottierNov 20, 2022
People don't realize that Reddit *used* to be open source. https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
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Show threadChris TrottierNov 20, 2022

Another thing people find surprising:

Self-hosted Reddit servers used to be commonplace.

Show threadChris TrottierNov 20, 2022

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.

Show threadChris TrottierNov 20, 2022
Of course, even if Reddit was still open source and supported ActivityPub, I'd probably prefer Lemmy since they use an AGPL license.
Show threadKlausNov 20, 2022
@atomicpoet Do you also like microblog.pub? I believe it is modular and easy to manage.
Show threadChris Trottier
@house I haven't tried it.
Nov 20, 2022 at 9:28pmWeb