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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    1 year ago

    This was asked before, but it is under the AGPL (which means that if you modify the code you must make the modifications public), to make it a closed source project you would have to get the agreement of every contributor or rewrite it’s code which is very hard to do (and i don’t think i ever heard something like this happened). The federated aspect is another line of defense.

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    1 year ago

    The original creators can sure try, but since Lemmy is ACTUALLY open source, the community can just fork the source, call it “the-good-lemmy” or whatever, and devote our time & resources to it instead of using the bullshit version

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    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.

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    1 year ago

    Our values are completely different from big tech. We would never do this.

    As other people mentioned, it’d be impossible even if we wanted to, because people would likely fork the code.