Post had nothing to do with murder or violence. It is clear who reddit serves.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Reddit was never FOSS.

    Reddit went full open-source in 2008 with a Github repo, did a (possibly deliberately) poor job of maintaining the repo despite this source code resulting in a plethora of 3rd party site enhancements and feature suites, then ultimately close its code nine years later.

    Linux is still going stong, even with vested financial interests.

    RedHat did Linux extremely dirty, and they’re hardly the first. It also has a significantly larger, more skilled, and more international userbase.

    Most importantly, wie have already made the decision to leave traditional social media and build something better.

    That’s a beautiful lie. Lemmy’s federation has been its pioneering feature, but it continues to backslide into Reddit-with-Extra-Steps. If anyone could claim they were building something truly novel, it was Mastadon. But that complexity and novelty has been an albatross around their necks since day one.

    If worst comes to wiorst, we’ll find each other again.

    :-/

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      If worst comes to wiorst, we’ll find each other again.

      :-/

      I’ll find you, UnderpantsWeevil. Under every rock, under every pant I’ll look, till I find you precious weevil.

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      7 hours ago

      Reddit went full open-source in 2008 with a Github repo

      I stand corrected, although it seems to have beern a corporate gambit.

      I can see where you’re coming from, reading you’re other reply in this thread, but I’ll just try to hold on to my idealism a bit longer :)