Hypothetically, they could implement some internal api and open Reddit to the fediverse no? What would happen then? (I’m sure they won’t because they want the money… but I’m just speculating…)
Then we’ll be able to see their communities and posts without having to give Reddit ad revenue, so they probably won’t do that unless they are really desperate. Even if they attempt something like federate their posts as links to their site, instance owners could just defederate with them, then we’re back to square one.
Then they would be a part of the fediverse and people on Lemmy would be able to see reddit content and people on reddit could see Lemmy content.
Not sure what the question is. What are the implications? Would be a pretty big deal for a company like reddit to do that. Never gonna happen with current management, of course.
I think instances would ultimately federate with reddit even though lots of people would make a big stink about it, just like with the Threads thing we saw a few weeks ago.
Did major instances federate with Threads? Honestly, all I saw from that fiasco were some screenshots of celebrities making fools of themselves. I never saw the outcome.
Threads hadn’t actually coded in the ActivityPub protocol into their system yet when they released. They released a bit early because they were trying to strike while Twitter/X was going through some drama.
According to them at the time they will federate in a few months. Not sure how realistic that is, but it’s what they were claiming then. I haven’t paid much attention since.
So as of now, nobody is federated with Threads.
Pros: The Fediverse would gain a significant amount of users and existing communities.
Cons: Those users would be redditors. While most I’ve seen are polite, some really love to hate others.
I suspect all social networks will need to federate eventually. Just like aol had to let the internet in or fade into irrelevance. I hope it’s something more like nostr then the Fediverse but I see this as inevitable.
I agree with most people here. I don’t think it’ll be something major. We’ll just be able to interact with them without having to use that
godawful piece of of crapofficial app. Of course, that’s if instances don’t defederate. Of course, reddit has porn and other nsfw stuff so maybe a few instances would defederate, but I don’t think lemmings would have as bad a reaction like we did with Threads.Of course, that’s never going to happen, as you’ve said, because of money.
This would mean reddit reverting a shit load of stupid decisions and the instances here to not just defederate them in a instant.
What would happen? Nothing significant.
Even if they did reverse some of their decisions, Lemmy instance admins be like
I mean the Facebook Twitter thing is also basically fully defederated before they even turned on federation. If reddit does it it will be even more, most people are on lemmy because they despise reddit.
It would be awesome and an absolute coup for the fediverse and you can’t convince me otherwise.
Honestly, this
I really can’t understand people who would rather prefer the fediverse to stay small and irrelevant than to open up and find compromises to reach hundreds of millions of active users worldwide and making federated social media mainstream. Compromises will have to be made anyway, as Lemmy is already struggling under growth and poor developed software (it’s not anybody’s fault, it’s literally a project by 2 developers and a few volunteers maintaining servers, they still have a long way to go)
On a sidenote, most Lemmy instances would probably explode under the weight of everyone following subreddit and server needing to replicate all the content from what would be alone several times bigger than the entire fediverse combined.
Who cares.
They would get defederated pretty quickly for all the shit they allow.
They can. Not sure if they would.
As the other post says - Lemmy users would be able to interact with Reddit, and Reddit users would be able to interact with Lemmy.
But the matter of the fact is -
(Userbase of Fediverse) <> (Userbase of Reddit)
And I believe Reddit bothers only about their own userbase, i.e. registered with them.
If I were spez I wouldn’t do it (but F U spez anyway)
