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I feel it. I followed a lot of innocuous bullshit, random stuff, and most of my comments followed suit. It's been a long while since I felt like I could have a conversation on most parts of Reddit. There are some niche communities, and things that don't work well without a lot of users, that I'll miss, but I'm mostly glad to be not spending so much time on Reddit.
I do hope that the open-source nature of Lemmy, and the fediverse in general, will foster a better relationship between developers/admins and users/mods, and more development towards what the mods and users want and need out of the platform. I do have optimism for the future of such an open platform, although I do remember a time when Reddit's software was open-source too.
I can't personally speak for the accessibility issue, so I don't know if it's a problem here, but open-source should definitely help with that too.
Reddit used the MIT license which is dogshit. It not only allows people to steal your work and not contribute back, but it also allows you to revoke the Open Source nature at any time.
Lemmy uses AGPL, which is pretty much the best pro-Open Source license out there. It is copyright violation to run a modified Lemmy instance and decline sharing the source code.
Edit: and just following up on this, it's thanks to AGPL that Truth Social had to release their source code too.
Well that's good to know, thanks for the info. I'm a garbage programmer so I'm not familiar with the nuances of open-source licenses, and have only ever used MIT, because it was the most permissive and I never wrote anything worth stealing or that I really gave a shit about lmao.