• SpectreOP
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    32 years ago

    What if Reddit and the government paid billions to the creators to fork over the servers and to make the source code and apps proprietary?

    • Hot Saucerman
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      72 years ago

      Unlikely considering their source of funding comes from various European governments.

      Also, it’s not very easy to make open source closed source. The original Lemmy code and documentation is already out there. The only thing they could do would be to add new features that are all closed source. (This is what reddit does, as their old code is open source.) At best, it would be a fork of Lemmy with closed source elements.

    • Dark Arc
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      2 years ago

      It’s been established that you can’t call backsies on open sourcing your software.

      They could make new updates to lemmy proprietary, but what’s out there is already out there.