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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No, it means if you run Lemmy as a service and make modifications to it, you have to release your modifications back with the same license. Otherwise you couldn't use a browser that's not AGPL and read pages running on top of an AGPL server.

What AGPL is really good at is how nobody can take Lemmy, run a proprietary service and add incompatible features without giving them back to the community. So nobody can fork Lemmy, create a new VC-backed Reddit clone and start making incompatible changes to the source without the main project getting the source code.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately it's still possible to rewrite a VC-backed clone and start making incompatible changes. Think about Facebook's "threads.net". They sure did not take Lemmy source code.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Threads isn't a Lemmy server, it's a proprietary platform that happens to "speak" ActivityPub.

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

No. Clients communicate with the servers, but do not necessarily use their code - just the output, which isn't inherently covered by the license.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago