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They've succeeded in killing their main competitor (in terms of ad share) and could even now walk back the api charges for any smaller operators and leave Apollo dead and avoid the biggest backlash.
It's scummy as hell and I won't want to continue to contributing to reddit, but I can't help but feel they've been shrewd in getting what they wanted.
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Thanks for your work. Apollo made using Reddit a decent experience, and clearly you had a very large part in that. User rapnie mentioned the code in the repository doesn't have a license [0]. You might want to review that. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36256566
I’ll check in with Christian and see what he wants to do. Got any particular recommendations?
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Thanks for your work. Apollo made using Reddit a decent experience, and clearly you had a very large part in that. User rapnie mentioned the code in the repository doesn't have a license [0]. You might want to review that. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36256566
I’ll check in with Christian and see what he wants to do. Got any particular recommendations?
1. All rights reserved - the source is visible but not open.
2. AGPL, to ensure that if someone does take this forward, no part of it can be closed source without your agreement.
3. MIT, which is extremely permissive and effectively you don't care what someone does with it, commercial or not.
Depending on your comfort level I would start with the middle option, I don't think people tend to mind you re-licensing more liberally but if a community has formed and you decide to go commercial further down the road it can cause problems.
All this backlash is going to kill Reddit. It will take a thousand little cuts for sure, but it started the moment they announced their ludicrous pricing.
I don't think it will. It'll IPO just fine, make their shareholders wealthy and become another millquetoast advertiser friendly walled garden for your average internet user while the jilted original users go and find another platform, which will in turn IPO just fine, make their shareholders wealthy and the cycle repeats forever. The average internet user by the way, is statistically not you reading this, doesn't rea…
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It’s hard to put oneself out there like that. Christian is very visible in the community, but I want to say thank you to you too. Thank you for all the work you did! This made a lot of our experiences great.
This right here is why I did it. To see a friend succeed, and to help make a community happier <3
All this backlash is going to kill Reddit. It will take a thousand little cuts for sure, but it started the moment they announced their ludicrous pricing.
I wonder.. The very same thing hardly seems to have hurt Twitter.
It has. As somewhat of a Twitter addict, I'm finding it much easier not to log on these days, because the experience and the conversations have really hollowed out. I'm also no longer seriously considering using Twitter for promoting any projects or anything of the like going forward.
There's a Reddit CEO AMA later today: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/144ho2x/join_our_ce... Can't see it being anything other than a PR disaster for them, unless they change their stance.
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I’ll check in with Christian and see what he wants to do. Got any particular recommendations?
GPL will ensure that the source is not used by any projects not affiliated with you who are trying to profit off of your work.
GPL on server side software doesn't really matter, that is why the AGPL exists