What if Reddit joined the Fediverse?
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?
You mean if they opened their API and allowed 3rd party clients?
I think it would be great for the Fediverse. Not sure what Reddit gets out of it though.
@AccidentalLemming We need to make sure that these big tech companies don't fall to quickly as outages of the Fediverse could kill it pretty quickly if the millions of users from even one platform did try to move across all at once.
@deegeese More the case of if they made it so their systems linked to ActivityPub and then Federated their servers. I would think that Reddit would get all the content that people are pushing away from Reddit and onto the Fediverse back towards there platform making users most likely not want to leave even more as they get the same thing they enjoy just with more things.
If they did that then a few things would happen:
This would lose Reddit out on all the advertising dollars they were hoping to achieve through this boondoggle forcing people to use their app.
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.
Why would they allow landed gentry to access their precious site through those pesky 3rd party apps?
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.
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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.
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
Reddit join fediverse ? And let anyone crawl their massive data, user generated content for free ?
Never. Reddit need that in IPO.
@KhouzzethFroststone Then if the Fediverse is the best option for people to move to (What it does look like it), They will slowly crash and full if their user experience keeps slowly becoming worse.
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.
