What does open source itself mean?

Does it mean anybody can access information about lemmy like upvotes?

Can any person access lemmy data to know what I upvote?

  • 87Six@lemmy.zip
    6·
    12 days ago

    Usually when you’re creating software (a program, website, game, whatever app) you have

    • the source of it (code, images, text, etc)
    • the end-user product (the thing a user sees)

    Closed source apps only allow you to access #2.

    Open source apps allow you to access #1 as well. This means you can find out exactly how that software works if you had the required knowledge. You can even modify it and create your own version of #2.

    #1 does not include user-generated data.