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Why is this community not named foss?
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this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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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.