[openinternet123]

The thing is, it was wholly possible to run your own Reddit clone before. Albeit missing some features like anti-spam.

With this, Reddit is announcing that they are no longer supporting that. Even if you cloned every public Reddit repository, there would be missing pieces preventing you from running your own clone.

One thing they don't mention for obvious reasons, is that they're afraid of the community being able to fork off a new site in the case of majorly unpopular decisions. Understandable given the recent 100 million from VCs.