We all know about how Reddit closed-sourced back in 2017 and will be killing off third-party apps this July, what will Lemmy.ml do to avoid facing the same fate? Reddit started off like this (open, aiming for freedom) and it all went downhill from there.

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    1 year ago

    Lemmy uses a open source license called the AGPL, which is a type of reciprocal license (called copyleft), which basically means you can’t close the source without everyone who contribute agreeing to do it or rewriting their contribution (and i don’t think it ever happened, i think it can be extremely difficult ).

    setting up a non profit that that has a decentralized power structure and is legally obligated to do public good might also provide another protection (but a copyleft license is probably enough).