Pros: The Fediverse would gain a significant amount of users and existing communities.
Cons: Those users would be redditors. While most I've seen are polite, some really love to hate others.
this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
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Then they would be a part of the fediverse and people on Lemmy would be able to see reddit content and people on reddit could see Lemmy content.
Not sure what the question is. What are the implications? Would be a pretty big deal for a company like reddit to do that. Never gonna happen with current management, of course.
I think instances would ultimately federate with reddit even though lots of people would make a big stink about it, just like with the Threads thing we saw a few weeks ago.
Did major instances federate with Threads? Honestly, all I saw from that fiasco were some screenshots of celebrities making fools of themselves. I never saw the outcome.
Threads hadn't actually coded in the ActivityPub protocol into their system yet when they released. They released a bit early because they were trying to strike while Twitter/X was going through some drama.
According to them at the time they will federate in a few months. Not sure how realistic that is, but it's what they were claiming then. I haven't paid much attention since.
So as of now, nobody is federated with Threads.
Oh, I thought you were implying that Threads was federated. I doubt any instance I'm on will federate with Threads.
I suspect all social networks will need to federate eventually. Just like aol had to let the internet in or fade into irrelevance. I hope it’s something more like nostr then the Fediverse but I see this as inevitable.
I agree with most people here. I don't think it'll be something major. We'll just be able to interact with them without having to use that ~~godawful piece of of crap~~ official app. Of course, that's if instances don't defederate. Reddit has porn and other nsfw stuff so maybe a few instances would defederate, but I don't think lemmings would have as bad a reaction like we did with Threads.
Of course, that's never going to happen, as you've said, because of money.
They would get defederated pretty quickly for all the shit they allow.
I think so too. There were frequently posts and comments from white supremacists and other bad actors on the front of r/all
It would be another exploding-heads type situation
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I remember when reddit was good. today I deleted the bookmark on my bookmarks bar. I'm done with it, lemmy is my new home. I'll tolerate slightly less content while people still jump ship
I hope not because there's a lot of Nazis and homophobic people on Reddit. I don't want r/conservative here spreading disinformation like they do and banning anyone who ever raises another viewpoint. Like the other commenters said, they'd probably get defederated because of all the shit they allow. I also don't want all the shitty people of Reddit fighting in the comments.
Would it be a smart thing to do for Reddit to stay relevant after it pissed off so much of its userbase? Probably but they're not exactly known for smart decisions.
It would be awesome and an absolute coup for the fediverse and you can't convince me otherwise.
Honestly, this
I really can't understand people who would rather prefer the fediverse to stay small and irrelevant than to open up and find compromises to reach hundreds of millions of active users worldwide and making federated social media mainstream. Compromises will have to be made anyway, as Lemmy is already struggling under growth and poor developed software (it's not anybody's fault, it's literally a project by 2 developers and a few volunteers maintaining servers, they still have a long way to go)
On a sidenote, most Lemmy instances would probably explode under the weight of everyone following subreddit and server needing to replicate all the content from what would be alone several times bigger than the entire fediverse combined.
They can. Not sure if they would.
As the other post says - Lemmy users would be able to interact with Reddit, and Reddit users would be able to interact with Lemmy.
But the matter of the fact is -
(Userbase of Fediverse) <> (Userbase of Reddit)
And I believe Reddit bothers only about their own userbase, i.e. registered with them.
If I were spez I wouldn't do it (but F U spez anyway)
Who cares.
That would be funny as fuck to see.
This would mean reddit reverting a shit load of stupid decisions and the instances here to not just defederate them in a instant.
What would happen? Nothing significant.
Even if they did reverse some of their decisions, Lemmy instance admins be like
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