Hypothetically, they could implement some internal api and open Reddit to the fediverse no? What would happen then? (I’m sure they won’t because they want the money… but I’m just speculating…)

  • falkerie71@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    31·
    2 years ago

    Then we’ll be able to see their communities and posts without having to give Reddit ad revenue, so they probably won’t do that unless they are really desperate. Even if they attempt something like federate their posts as links to their site, instance owners could just defederate with them, then we’re back to square one.

      • falkerie71@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        That’s not gonna happen. ActivityPub isn’t controlled by Reddit, and instance owners are free to defederate with Reddit if they so choose.

  • Destragras@kbin.social
    192·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • kava@lemmy.world
    16·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • LinkOpensChest.wav@midwest.social
      32·
      2 years 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.

      • kava@lemmy.world
        10·
        2 years ago

        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.

  • krayj@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    2 years ago

    Reddit will never do this. The very act of federation would mean hosting and maintaining a publicly accessible API, and they’ve already made it clear that not doing that is the hill they are willing to die on.

      • krayj@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        ActivityPub is, itself, a client/server api. If they implemented that, there would be no need for access to their private API to do everything that any 3rd party app maker would want to do.

  • vamp07@lemm.eeEnglish
    101·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • CheshireSnake@lemdit.comEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • LinkOpensChest.wav@midwest.social
      31·
      2 years ago

      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

    • AbsolutelyNotABot@feddit.it
      41·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • DeadNinja@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    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)

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
    63·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works
    21·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
      51·
      2 years ago

      Even if they did reverse some of their decisions, Lemmy instance admins be like

        • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          lmao just by that petty action alone I wouldn’t deem this account fit of having any mod power at all.

      • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 years ago

        I mean the Facebook Twitter thing is also basically fully defederated before they even turned on federation. If reddit does it it will be even more, most people are on lemmy because they despise reddit.