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Waiting for Apollo to create a Fediverse fork be like (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

IIRC, he open sourced the server backend.

Edit: apparently I do not recall correctly. I remember someone saying something about open source, and he posted something to github. I incorrectly linked the two. Thanks to those posted more accurate information below.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure if "open sourced" is the right word(s) here. I can't find a license in the repository, so it is not released as open source and the code can't be used without breaching copyright.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure it was only done to prove Reddit wrong re: scraping and abusing the API (and all those silly accusations they made against Apollo).

He still owns the rights to it AFAIK.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I agree... that is how I understood it, too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Server back end? What does that do? I thought Apollo would just take directly to Reddit's servers?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Iirc it was mostly about storing some user preferences and providing push notifications.
Reddit apparently has no async API for notifications, so 3rd party apps are forced to regular polling.