Lemmy VS Reddit

If you really want a more reddit-like experience, join-lemmy.org is your best option

Its my favorite fediverse implementation, check it out https://join-lemmy.org/

Lemmy is a fediverse app that is a news aggregator. Check it out at https://join-lemmy.org

This post is a part of Lemmy 0.16.7 on OpenBSD 7.2 about Lemmy.

$ git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy.git --recursive --branch 0.16.7 --single-branch

Lemmy is one of Fediverse implementations, which focuses on link aggregators. It also works as a platform for forums and microblogging.

Fediverse reddit: https://join-lemmy.org/

Then you look at those sites and figure out which best follows open source philosophy of the ones listed. The ones that best follow open source principles are Lemmy and Aether, and maybe Hive, but I don't like it as much.

Lemmy is prob smth you're looking for. You can follow Lemmy communities from Mastodon

You might like Lemmy then: Lemmy - A link aggregator for the fediverse (join-lemmy.org)

Hot is not a trade secret. How it works is public information. Here the code:

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/l...

They no longer use that code though, right? You can't find the site on their list of repositories, you can only find it here: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit, and that hasn't been updated since 2017.

And before some idiot says bullshit, Reddit is open source. https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

They used to have a public github repo, but archived it many years ago. Old reddit seems to use the same codebase to generate all of the old mobile sites, RSS feeds, and other pages just by swapping out templates. So they'd have to drop or re-implement all of those things at once. Probably easier to modify it to fetch data from the new reddit API rather than directly from the database, then leave the whole system largely alone as legacy code, as none of those views of the site really have much reason to need new features. https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/tree/master/r2/r2/templates

You should be fine as long as you follow the API access rules. As other have mentioned there may be some rate-limiting but in my tests I was fine fetching every 15-20min (and sometimes much more often during testing, but I was at most at 2-3 calls per minute).

reddit was built using python and pgsql and they source was open for a while. You can look at the archive here: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/models/comment_tree.py

As long as you're following the rate-limiting rules should generally be fine, but not something I've experimented with.

Reddit's admins stopped developing Old Reddit publicly nearly five years ago, and New Reddit has never been public. God alone knows what all they're hiding, but things being broken and never getting fixed is at least partly their own fault. Jeez, you guys!