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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        Oh that reminds me, Voat happened. It wasn’t a code fork but a clone, and it was also filled with right-wing garbage.

        Tildes is still around too, but I think it’s got even less traction than lemmy.

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        Lemmy is filled with actual communists, so I wonder if political extremism is correlated with alternate social networks.

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        Old reddit was just the old UI. IMO, old UI was way better than new UI.

        The reddit open source stuff was only a portion of the website and algorithm. I believe Voat and a few others might have glanced at that code. Last I looked it was still up on GitHub. https://github.com/reddit