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.
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
For real tho I like this place better.
Federating with Reddit completely idiotic for any Lemmy instance.
They will only gain limited traffic, and their userbase will be swamped by Redditors.
There is zero incentive for Lemmy admins to do this, and huge incentives not to do this.
Poorly, I left for a reason.
Add their instance to my block list
Same.
It wouldn’t bother me. I wouldn’t subscribe to any subreddits though.
I would love it because there are subreddits I use a lot on reddit that don’t have an active equivalent on lemmy at all.
Lemmy.world already exists unfortunately
I do miss some of the subreddits though
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
It cannot because of copyright constraints. It sells it’s data to others.
But look, if Reddit did, at least people could use third party and free apps.
I meaaaan, while I did join Lemmy because I was sick of reddit the company’s greedy decisions, I do miss the amount of users and content it has/generates. If reddit joining the fediverse meant they couldn’t dictate what app I use to view their posts, I probably would enjoy being able to browse their content again.
You can kinda already do that, apps like rdx, Stealth, and Geddit pull reddit content without using the API. You can’t vote/comment, but you can still follow communities that have worthwhile content.
Same tbh idk if it’s the community or the app for me
i feel like it would get defed from places like hexbear pretty fast so it wouldn’t bother me.
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.
It is radically public. It’s designed to broadcast your content to hundreds of other peoples’ computers running all manner of different software which might then rebroadcast it to yet more. The whole architecture is oriented toward spreading things far and wide, and what tools exist to restrict the audience or retract content already shared are little more than polite suggestions.
That’s not a flaw, but people using it should understand how it works so they don’t run into surprises.
Reddit clearly spends like $6 per year on feature engineering so this would require around one millennia to implement.
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.
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
