lenny VS Reddit

This precedent exists. A fork called Lenny once existed for what seems to be that purpose: "Sadly, it only exist because of disrespectful behavior of the original author." It has since been archived.

Lenny, a fork of it was trying to fix this but has basically been abandoned: https://github.com/innereq/lenny

https://github.com/innereq/lenny#the-lemmy-problem

Having more users isn't going to help if the core developers are anti-diversity.

Well, there's already a fork with it removed so bigots can simply use it

The censorship-free Lenny fork (of Lemmy) is available from https://github.com/innereq/lenny (mirrored at moonbutt.science/innereq/lenny).

Whoever interested in Lemmy check out fork of Lemmy with removed stupid slur filter https://github.com/innereq/lenny

There's a already a fork https://github.com/innereq/lenny

Do you mean Lenny?

Slashdot, reddit, and HN are similar in that the source code was available. For HN, as part of arc under the Artistic license. All 3 abandoned public source code releases.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

While it would likely have zero overlap with the code in use today if you look at the old code Reddit used to publish for voting the model at that point used to have flags/checks for :

I've been trying to host my own instance of Reddit from archived source code on GitHub. Even though I am aware that's probably not a good idea since many dependencies are broken and there's practically no documentation on anything (and it's really old legacy code), but I still decided to give it a shot.

Shh, don't tell spez, the code is already available on the github https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/

Automod to act based on keywords/domains/etc., ideally using the same language/flags/regex/etc. of the original automod (old code) so that it's possible to use existing code. (For detecting off-topic posts, enforcing a title format, reminding the users to add missing details to post, filtering profanity, shadowbanning spammers, etc.)

Reddit pre enshittification is actually open source so spinning up your own Reddit instance should be trivially easy. I’m very surprised no one did this after the API protests started

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

There are already 1:1 reddit clones based on older versions of their software that was open source: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit