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Why is this community not named foss? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Genuinely trying to know if this is intentional to incorporate non-free open source software? If yes then why?

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not the one who created this community, but I highly suspect that this community was named after the r/opensource sub on Reddit, like many other communites here. r/opensource has (or had) 200k users whereas r/foss only had 8k users, so I guess it was a natural choice to pick the more popular sub out of the two.