How come Reddit isn't open-source anymore? I'm building a new kind of social network and would love to make it open source.

• Reddit

  421 15,552 0.0 Python

I'm not sure if reddit was fully open source. You can look at the initial commit, sadly the original blog post is gone.

• Lemmy

  1,603 12,803 9.8 Rust

  🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse

  

Federated services, like email, break the network effect to a degree so competing service can well, compete. You should checkout lemmy a federated reddit. It's close to what you want but already made! Mastadon is like twitter.

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• Lobsters

  264 3,932 9.5 Ruby

  Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion

  

Yes, I believe that much of circlejerking and the inter-community conflict could have been avoided if people with different interests shared the same discussion threads on a post, so there would be more cross-pollination of ideas rather than memetic inbreeding. So far Lobste.rs comes closest to what I had in mind, though does not allow user-generated tags. Moderation is an open-question, Lobsters has a site-wide moderation team, but I imagine one could create some sort of hybrid system that could decentralize matters (Lobste.rs appears to prefer to stay with a small, close-knit community around tech).

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