I didn’t know it was open source until 2018. According to the article, they needed to go close-sourced due to the video player (lol)
… But you can find the original source code at: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit1.0
I really wonder if this is the code for https://old.reddit.com
In principle I agree with karma turned posts into people gaming the system.
However, I’ve heard one of the struggles for Lemmy Communities is to keep people from lurking.
Karma might be a stupid feature but it is/was a cheap way of driving participation - it could help Lemmy (especially at this early stage). Even if karma encouraged people to just up voted, it still raised visibility on the more interesting topics.
Oh, I hope this (eventually) works with Skyrim VR!