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The boiling frog of digital freedom | Sep 2023
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Reddit used to be open source:

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/6xfyfg/an_update... 2. https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
Rings.social – Reddit-API compatible and Open Source content-voting platform | Jul 2023
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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
Louis Rossmann calls community to leave Reddit | Jun 2023
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Fork and deploy old Reddit

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives? | Jun 2023
I'm surprised "someone" haven't just deployed old Reddit already somewhere.

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

Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely | Jun 2023
I've posted this a few times, but there's a snapshot of reddit from 2017 that you can self host:

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

Why not just do that? Sure, it's a lot of python, and probably full of security holes, but there are enough reddit users to fix that, and the risk that your reddit instance might be taken over by malicious people is lower than the risk that centralized reddit will (since it already has been...)

Anyway, each time I link to it, I get crickets in response. Not sure why.

Spezless – A Reddit clone without u/Spez | Jun 2023
Isn't the base version of reddit, without the crappy UI and image hosting, already open sourced? Just go from there. Probably easier to install than building a counter for your email signups.

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

Reddit Strike Has Started | Jun 2023
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Original: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

Improved fork: https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit
Livestream of Reddit subreddits going private in protest | Jun 2023
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Why use an alternative when you can use the real thing? Reddit was open-source until 2017: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

I think that qualifies at trivial.
Archive your Reddit data before it's too late | Jun 2023
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Reddit actually used to be open source until mid-2017: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
Archive your Reddit data before it's too late | Jun 2023
This exists:

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

Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread protests | Jun 2023
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https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps | Jun 2023
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I agree. The Apollo dev arguably owns the user last-mile. It wouldn't be a stretch to offer users an alternative. Reddit was open source until 2017 (https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit) so most of the heavy dev lifting is already done. The major cost would be in infrastructure.
Reddit has been down for more than an hour | Mar 2023
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Reddit used to be open source: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
PhpBB 3.3.10 | Feb 2023
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It was (is?) Python: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
Reddit files to go public | Dec 2021
1) A nice clickbait title. 2) Just some general grammar problems that appear in many languages, including English.

I thought that reddit's source code (files) would be published and free again. By the way, reddit used to be open source: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

Too bad.

Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked | Oct 2021
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Sadly, Reddit stopped updating the public repo for their main application in 2017:

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