> Given the link has nothing to do with hacking or how the site was created

Let me draw your attention to:

- Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper (scientificamerican.com)

- Fish are eating lots of plastic (washingtonpost.com)

- A ten-day camel trek through the Australian outback (themonthly.com.au)

- A Japanese Pen Maker Anticipated the Fountain-Pen Renaissance (bloomberg.com)

And thus discard your issue as not relevant

I think his point was that the title indicates it's an open source reddit clone but the content is nothing about the open sourceness of it or how it was created, whereas the articles that you point out are I assume true to their titles.

He wasn't saying it shouldn't be on here because it's not hackery, just it should have it's title renamed

There is a link to the source on GitLab in the footer, but indeed that is not the focus of the homepage.