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Is it possible Lemmy's API changes the way reddits did? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't mean the recent selling API rights at absurd costs but when they went from open sourcish to closed.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

decentralisation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

wdym it's not decentralised? do you mean the development is centralised?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

yeah I guess.