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.
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2023
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@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.
Fair point. We want a trickle then, not a flood. This means that reddit needs to be consistently bad, the shitty user experience needs to continue for a long time, with constant attention on the same, so that more and more people want to leave it and move somewhere better.
@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:
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Reddit would get access to all the content for any server they are federated with
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Users would be able to see Reddit content from those same servers and could therefore use a 3rd party app to see it
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
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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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
As much as I'd like to be able to see subreddits on the fediverse, I'd be more worried spez having influence than zuck (threads).
@beefbaby182 that is a fair point just hope Reddit falls slowly to force users to move across to platforms like Lemmy and Kbin
I really need to dip my toes into kbin and see what that's all about. I've heard nothing but good things about it and I've definitely taken to Lemmy quicker and easier than I did to Mastodon.
@beefbaby182 Yeah it's like a mix of both Lemmy and Mastodon, Has a few features missing here and there but they seem to be added quite quickly.
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.
Reddit join fediverse ? And let anyone crawl their massive data, user generated content for free ?
Never. Reddit need that in IPO.
@Khouzzeth_Froststone 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.