Similar to the time Soviet Russia wanted to join the anti-Soviet alliance which was trying to pretend wasn’t made to plot against the soviets.
OK, I’ll get stoned for saying this, but I’d welcome it if done properly.
It’s a large user base, lots of niche communities.
The more complicated part would be moderation, as that’s already a problem now. Also, resources may be a problem.
None of its supposed assets make up for the corporate overlords who run it and promote or permit all sorts of terrible things
Lemmy.world already exists unfortunately
I do miss some of the subreddits though
As long as it didn’t pollute the fedi timeline with ads, AI slop and partnered posts, that’d be OK to me… (If someone worrying about our posts/comments being used by AIs, it’s already happening even for those instances that does not federate with Threads; Proofs? Once I searched for my own username and I got surprised on how my fediverse posts are spread all across the results through federated instances that I never heard about, so if my fedi content shows on Google, it’s certainly being fed to some AI datasets)
people just dont understand how public the fediverse is.
That’s the same as asking how we would feel if Facebook decided to join the fediverse. The way instances reacted to that, would be the way they’d react to reddit, or twitter, or any of the enshitified tech giants.
The same way we dealt with threads. Defederation.
lemmy.world is already federated
Came to say this. Its basically indistinguishable except the numbers are smaller. Its why I stopped using my .ml account too because they spread. They are in your house now
I would get banned from their instance for saying I approve of people physically fighting Nazis. It would be nice to have more people to fill out niche communities though.
This would be a horrible thing because, even if we get more communities here, reddit now would have the vast majority of the fediverse in their hands. It would only be a matter of time before reddit would pull a microsoft to try and extinguish it.
it wont happen, that would basically be broadcasting reddit content to servers whose intention is to offer it up the public for free (no ads).
if we cant utilize their api without paying through the nose, there is zero chance theyll let activitypub do it for free.
Cool. Biggest reason I quit reddit was I hate was them enforcing their dumb layout. While there exists other reasons like powermods, If I can visit it through mastodon or lemmy; why not really?
It wouldn’t bother me. I wouldn’t subscribe to any subreddits though.
Long as none of them were given mod powers, nbd
I’m here mostly because the implementation is superior. If Reddit was accessible directly from here, it’d be a total win-win imho.
It would also be a lose-lose for them, as it would open up their data to free-of-charge use via API without any benefit for them – so it’s not going to happen.
“Anti-slave owner posting is back on the menu comrades!”
John Brown was correct
Reddit clearly spends like $6 per year on feature engineering so this would require around one millennia to implement.
