mp3 , 28 minutes ago

D E F E D E R A T E D

atrielienz , 34 minutes ago

The best I’ve got is, it’s complicated. I left reddit very purposely to avoid a lot of the corp side BS and the results of that on the user base. The number of bots and bought/paid accounts alone is enough of a reason not to go back. It’s been getting pretty steadily worse for the last decade at least and while I think the fediverse is kind of toxic, I know for a fact from first hand experience that reddit is more so by a large margin. I want Lemmy to have more users and more communities. I miss reddit for the sheer number of niche communities that haven’t moved over. I don’t have time to start and moderate a community myself. But I don’t want reddit here. I welcome users who want to follow the rules. I don’t welcome wholesale reddit occupation of this space.

ItsComplicated , 20 minutes ago

The best I’ve got is, it’s complicated.

This should be my line!

MentalEdge , 46 minutes ago

I’d be very down to be able to subscribe to a couple select subs back there.

But I’d also be a bit disappointed because several Reddit communities have fediverse versions that are just nicer to be in, and I’m not so sure they’d survive if people could just go interact with the reddit equivalents via federation.

BonesOfTheMoon , 57 minutes ago

I wouldn’t want it myself because I think Reddit is super shitty now, but if their instance could be blocked I suppose it wouldn’t matter.

That said I don’t think they will. They’ll remain in their walled garden until they’re as obsolete as AOL became.

simply_surprise , 59 minutes ago

They would immediately defed lemmygrad and hexbear, so it would not make a difference.

AntiOutsideAktion , 1 hour ago

lemmy.world is already federated

Rentlar , 1 hour ago

They can do what they want, but if they want my contribution, they play by our rules.

Free, public API to support 3rd party readers. None of this paid API extortion, ads, super upvote monetization nonsense. AI generated stupid discussion communities I will block on sight.

More vibrant and active niche communities I will be happy to receive but I do like things as they stand too.

CaptainBasculin , 1 hour ago

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?

jerkface , 1 hour ago

I’d start consuming content that originates on Reddit again, for one thing.

originalucifer , 1 hour ago

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.

dsilverz , 1 hour ago

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)

originalucifer , 1 hour ago

people just dont understand how public the fediverse is.

Zak , 53 minutes ago

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.

barsquid , 1 hour ago

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.

user224 , 1 hour ago

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.

calabast , 1 hour ago

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.

Fubarberry , 1 hour ago

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.

NOFF , 1 hour ago

So I’d get reddit content without having to deal with reddit’s nonsense layout and terrible app? That sounds kinda nice actually.

njm1314 , 1 hour ago

I mean you’re already getting Reddit content, Lemmy is basically just Reddit reposted.

Albbi , 1 hour ago

Not when you block that reposting bot. Every once in a while I’ll see something that’s a screenshot from reddit, but that’s fine. We can get content from all over. Reddit used to get 9gag screenshots and commenters would throw up in their mouths a little over that.

njm1314 , 1 hour ago

I’m not talking about a bot. Just scroll around and then go to Reddit for a while. Same exact content.

cogitase , 1 hour ago

That’s just the Internet now. Every site has content pulled from other sites and their share of local content. Then it gets reposted with more compression artifacts each cycle until it degrades and returns to the earth.

Oisteink , 57 minutes ago

Sometimes i see something on reddit that ive seem already here. Very little is OC