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Reddit federates with no one.
Reddit forces you to use their app, lemmy.world let's you chose between many.
Reddit tracks outbound link clicks, lemmy.world does not.
Using the largest lemmy instances is still far and away better than using reddit.
Reddit tracks outbound link clicks, lemmy.world does not.
We actually don't know that. Lemmy does not come packaged with tracking software, but instance owners can add their own. The admins there have actually unsuccesfully tried to dox someone (leaking an email address they thought was that person's) and track deleted messages on their discord server. We can't say at this time whether they track users or not.
Lemmygrad btw does not run any tracking software, it's the legit lemmy software with no modifications.
Using the largest lemmy instances is still far and away better than using reddit.
You're still interacting with Redditors tho.
We actually don't know that.
Yes we do, hover over a link and it's the direct link.
Reddit has to redirect each link through the "out.reddit.com" domain because that's a necessary step to track each click.
Its where a lot of redditors moved to, and they brought their chauvinism / western supremacy with them.
Of course Reddit doesn’t federate — even if they were willing to do it, what benefit would it be for any other service to federate with it?
Reddit has a massive userbase, and it’s hard to overstate this impact in terms of even fairly large communities on Reddit, who have a user or two at most on Lemmy.
Reddit doesn’t force you to use its app — the website remains freely accessible. I can’t understand why people want to get apps for every website they visit… do you need push notifications for Reddit or something?!
Using the largest Lemmy instances is in many ways equal to Reddit at best.
Of course Reddit doesn’t federate — even if they were willing to do it, what benefit would it be for any other service to federate with it?
I'm not saying they have an incentive to do it, I'm pointing out the comparative advantage the largest lemmy instances has over it.
Reddit doesn’t force you to use its app — the website remains freely accessible.
Not true on mobile, you are forced onto the app other than a very limited preview.
It won't be long until Reddit kills old.reddit on the desktop too.
What is the advantage you’d have if you could federate on Reddit? Ability to post on Lemmygrad? In terms of communities, Reddit has way more of them on every topic.
Not true, you can use old.reddit just fine on mobile, and even new.reddit to some extent
Federation has a lot of benefits, like being able to follow communities off-site or DM users on any AP server like mastodon from lemmy.
old.reddit doesn't seem optimized for mobile, and is certainly going to be killed off around the IPO.
New reddit blocks comment expansions, and doesn't let you see the thread at all if marked NSFW (which many benign discussions are).
Also, I don't want Reddit logging every click I make. Big lemmy instances don't put up a middle-man domain to hijack each click.