So I have thoughts about what if platforms that we seemly are trying to move away from such as Reddit decided to Fedirate and join the Fediverse.
Do you think it would be beneficial or practical in the long run?
How do you think people would change their thoughts of the Fediverse if platforms like Reddit did do this sort of thing?
What would you do if Reddit did join the Fediverse?
At this point, they can completely fuck off because I have old.lemmy.world now
@DannyMac Fair enough, didn’t know they had the older UI of Reddit for Lemmy.
I’d be for it. Would be nice to finally delete my old reddit account, but still be able to occasionally check in on a few niche subs.
@beefbaby182 Yeah here’s for either Reddit going down or for them to possibly join the Fediverse
As much as I’d like to be able to see subreddits on the fediverse, I’d be more worried spez having influence than zuck (threads).
@beefbaby182 that is a fair point just hope Reddit falls slowly to force users to move across to platforms like Lemmy and Kbin
I really need to dip my toes into kbin and see what that’s all about. I’ve heard nothing but good things about it and I’ve definitely taken to Lemmy quicker and easier than I did to Mastodon.
@beefbaby182 Yeah it’s like a mix of both Lemmy and Mastodon, Has a few features missing here and there but they seem to be added quite quickly.
I would absolutely love it! The more the merrier.
The possibility does seem pretty remote, though, since it would allow us to consume Reddit content without seeing Reddit ads, which seems to be a huge emphasis for the company right now.
Thats just reddit suicide part 2 and would involve revoking the api Desaster.
@CookieJarObserver They as well as Twitter seem to be trying to kill themselves anyway. The more people jump off these platforms and move the Fediverse, the more likely these big tech social medias will most likely try and hold onto the Fediverse to try and survive.
It’s pretty much already here, at least the posts that are worthwhile - there are plenty of people cross-posting content, although most are avoiding linking directly to Reddit. I think that if an instance chooses to federate with Reddit, they’d be reducing the overall quality of their content. That being said, it’s mostly harmless in this context, as I can’t really see folks who already use the Fediverse signing up on Reddit as a result.
I’d be more worried about Reddit using federation to scrape content from the Fediverse (although not as worried as I am about Meta). One of the main reasons I post to the Fediverse rather than Reddit now is because I don’t want Spez making money off my content, and any additional audience Reddit would bring my content in exchange is of dubious quality at best.
