I don’t mean the recent selling API rights at absurd costs but when they went from open sourcish to closed.
The original creators can sure try, but since Lemmy is ACTUALLY open source, the community can just fork the source, call it “the-good-lemmy” or whatever, and devote our time & resources to it instead of using the bullshit version
Our values are completely different from big tech. We would never do this.
As other people mentioned, it’d be impossible even if we wanted to, because people would likely fork the code.
decentralisation
It’s not truly decentralized, it’s federated. So if lemmy devs change things, each instance can choose whether to pull those in or continue with its current version, potentially defederating as necessary.
wdym it’s not decentralised? do you mean the development is centralised?
I mean instances are not decentralized, they are federated. When I say “decentralized,” I mean how BitTorrent is decentralized, as in there’s no central server where everything happens. Lemmy is federated, which means there are multiple centralized instances that communicate with each other.
yeah I guess.
This was asked before, but it is under the AGPL (which means that if you modify the code you must make the modifications public), to make it a closed source project you would have to get the agreement of every contributor or rewrite it’s code which is very hard to do (and i don’t think i ever heard something like this happened). The federated aspect is another line of defense.
Didn’t know bout needing everyone’s permission
