How come Reddit isn't open-source anymore? I'm building a new kind of social network and would love to make it open source.

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Lobsters

Yes, I believe that much of circlejerking and the inter-community conflict could have been avoided if people with different interests shared the same discussion threads on a post, so there would be more cross-pollination of ideas rather than memetic inbreeding. So far Lobste.rs comes closest to what I had in mind, though does not allow user-generated tags. Moderation is an open-question, Lobsters has a site-wide moderation team, but I imagine one could create some sort of hybrid system that could decentralize matters (Lobste.rs appears to prefer to stay with a small, close-knit community around tech).

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