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I prefer FOSS stuff.
I mean, technically, the code to reddit is open source.
Can you elaborate on this?
Reddit was originally open source code, they made it closed source in 2017 or something
Interesting, I had no idea. That probably would have been a good time to start developing a FOSS alternative.
https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6xh3xp/reddits_main_code_is_no_longer_opensource/
Here's a good discussion on it. Here's a great comment from a deleted account: