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Reddit just recently announced they're no longer open source [1]. The last source dump could still be used, but I think they choose not to just out of a statement that they're against the Reddit corporation.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6xh3xp/reddits...

Reddit is kind of a pain to run at small scale because it has so many dependences: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/Dependencies.

The authors of Raddit tried that, but found that actually running Reddit's software, especially on low-end hardware for a smaller community, was a pain in the arse and decided it'd be easier to build their own that fit their purposes.

If they wanted to use Python, they probably would have forked it. Not everyone thinks python is good.

That's not the complete source code. Some parts are kept secret such as the voting algorithm.

Reddit is not released under a free software license.

I was wondering the same thing