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by mjfl 786 days ago
don't we have Reddit's source? Why doesn't someone just clone it?
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There have been multiple attempts to clone it, but the communities there almost always end up toxic or filled with illicit activities.

Some (including me) have shifted to Lemmy, a FOSS Fediverse alternative like Mastodon is to X (Twitter). There are many instances of Lemmy to choose from as home. Mine is lemmy.world. I run a few communities there and we have a chill environment there.

If you miss the old reddit feel, you can emulate it with old.lemmy.world

Some Reddit third-party app devs converted their apps to Lemmy apps after Reddit made those API changes.

There's tildes.net which is run by a former Reddit admin, but it's smaller and invite-only.