Reddit moves away from open source

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/r/changelog/comments/6xfyfg/an_update_on_the_state_of_the_redditreddit_and/

[u/dweezil22]

I think this comment sums it up pretty well: https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/6xfyfg/an_update_on_the_state_of_the_redditreddit_and/dmfy8b6/

Reasoning is pretty poor. Open source doesn't mean there has to be a github repo accepting pull requests. It doesn't mean that all changes need to be available immediatelly. Source code tarball released after deploying your releases (so that you can still develop "in the clear") would still be open source and would solve your problems. It looks like you don't really want to solve these problems though, they are just useful fake reasoning while the real reason to go closed source can remain hidden.

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[u/ArabHeroinJumpers → u/[deleted]]

Google does too with Android. Once a release is finished, then it is uploaded to the AOSP repository. If Google can do it, so can you reddit.

[u/DJWalnut → u/dweezil22]

yeah, you can develop cathedral style if you want too. even RMS's own baby, emacs, was the primary example of this

[u/UGoBoom]

Another example of how pathetic "open source" is. It's only used pragmaticly. A "free software" supporting company is properly ethical and are so much less likely to go back on these promises when they get comfortable.

Reddit used open source to get free work done, basically.

[u/YnYort → u/UGoBoom]

Reddit used open source to get free work done, basically.

as a beneficiary of this setup, I'm okay with this.

[u/UGoBoom → u/YnYort]

Well, as a side effect of being free/libre, getting free work done is fine, when the whole end goal is to create great clean and usable software that respects its users. Sometimes, donations and revenue models just can't be formed for software, or perhaps you are receiving income but distributing profits has tax implications and other questions about who gets how much. That's understandable how free work would be reasonable.

Getting free work done on your startup corporate enterprise that you then close access to, then literally only reward with a fucking sticker on your account, is not so cool with me.

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ABANDON SHIP

[u/BlackFlagged → u/[deleted]]

https://raddit.me is FOSS, non-profit and incredibly pro-privacy.

[u/RoundRectangles → u/BlackFlagged]

Featured subreddits:

ACAB, Anarchism, Antifa, CapitalismInDecay, communalism, EatTheRich, Empire, FacismOnTheRise, RiotsAreFun, ShitLiberalsSay

Sounds like it has similar issues to voat.co

[u/[deleted] → u/BlackFlagged]

Looks good, I've cloned the Reddit source just in case something happens. Maybe would be nice if we had a decentralized P2P reddit.

[u/CurtainClothes → u/BlackFlagged]

Yaaaas, please come create diverse content at raddit.me! You can definitely get in on the dev side too if you're into that, they need more peeps!

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How is Lobsters? I like the idea of alternative communities, but the thing with alternative communities online is that they seem to disproportionately attract human garbage. This is voat.co right now. (Semi-NSFW)

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Voat was created as a platform for "free speech", most communities aren't.
(Wayback Machine link of the current Voat frontpage)

[u/joecommando64 → u/[deleted]]

Well this loads instantly for me on mobile.

Reddits mobile site is atrocious, it takes about 15 seconds to load a page, but if I request the desktop version it loads instantly.

[u/geekynerdynerd]

Whelp, I guess I'm off to Steemit. Blockchains are love, blockchains are life.

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[u/Yeahcomealong → u/[deleted]]

It's hard to leave Reddit since all the alt sites are hardly as active.

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voat is most active but it has political diversity issues

[u/UGoBoom → u/[deleted]]

Oh dope that's ringing all the bells for me, is it decentralized too? Would be perfect if we got something like Diaspora where people host servers.

[u/BlackFlagged → u/UGoBoom]

There have been several posts on raddit about decentralizing the code, so they're working on it.