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RedWizard ,
@RedWizard@hexbear.net avatar

It would be the death of this side of the federated internet. The amount of content it would generate once federated would crush existing servers. You would have to defederate or face near instant storage shortages. The federated que would take years to sync.

Anyway, it wouldn’t happen because they would need to transmit real vote counts instead of fuzzy vote counts. You would be able to see how every single person on reddit voted. Which would simply expose the vote manipulation going on there.

D61 ,

It would instantly de-fed from all the cool people, all the shitty leminitors probably would be reabsorbed back into fed-Reddit and those Reddit clone lemmy comms would die.

D61 ,

“Anti-slave owner action is back on the menu comrades!”

NOFF ,

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

njm1314 ,

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

Albbi ,

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 ,

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

cogitase ,

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 ,

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

spacemanspiffy ,

Except for the gifs.

And the thousands of niche communities/subreddits.

fishos ,
@fishos@lemmy.world avatar

All the downvotes but literally every post here I see is on Reddit hours or days beforehand.

imaqtpie ,
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works avatar

A) It’s not literally every post

B) Stop using reddit. Problem solved.

otter ,

Which makes me think they won’t do that, at least until they realize their current plan won’t work out in the long run. So far they’ve been going in the opposite direction by locking down everything:

  • killing off third party apps
  • making it difficult to access on old Reddit or mobile web
  • only letting search engines index the site if they pay
  • talk of paywalling subreddits
mp3 ,
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

D E F E D E R A T E D

MajorMajormajormajor ,

I’LL I WON’T BE BACK

user224 ,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

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.

GarbageShoot ,

None of its supposed assets make up for the corporate overlords who run it and promote or permit all sorts of terrible things

Linkerbaan ,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

We already have Lemmy.World no need for two of them

nichtburningturtle , (edited )
@nichtburningturtle@feddit.org avatar

The same way we dealt with threads. Defederation.

calabast ,

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 ,
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz avatar

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.

danhab99 ,
@danhab99@programming.dev avatar

Same tbh idk if it’s the community or the app for me

atrielienz ,

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 ,

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

This should be my line!

MentalEdge ,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

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.

dsilverz ,
@dsilverz@thelemmy.club avatar

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 ,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

people just dont understand how public the fediverse is.

Zak ,
@Zak@lemmy.world avatar

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.

BonesOfTheMoon ,

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 ,
@simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml avatar

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

AntiOutsideAktion ,
@AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml avatar

lemmy.world is already federated

Rentlar ,

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.

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