this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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[–] zoe@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] png@artemis.camp 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am going to assume you want to know what a fork is. if not, ignore me.

If the sourcecode of a software is publicly available, someone can take that sourcecode and develop it into a different direction than the original software. In this case, a third-partt reddit app called Infinity is being developed into a Lemmy app by someone who is not the original dev.

[–] zoe@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

thanks, it makes sense now.

[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

It means that, because the reddit version was open source, some completely different Dev was able to take it and rework it to work with lemmy