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R00bot ,
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I don’t think they would do that unless Lemmy continues to grow to a point where it challenges Reddit. Then it becomes a technical issue. I don’t think they can do that. It was one thing for threads to do it, being designed with that in mind from day 1, but it’s completely different for Reddit to do it. There are so many features that just wouldn’t make the jump, and so much content that would need to be reworked.

If they were going to do it, it would most likely be a clean break where you just can’t access old Reddit content on Lemmy, but all their new stuff would be accessible.

I also just don’t see them giving away their content like that after cracking down on the API how they did.

Makeshift ,

I came to Lemmy because I disliked what Steve Huffman did to reddit.

I’d be completely fine with the users being here. I do miss the whole active community for every niche little thing part. If if federates that’d be neat.

It won’t, since greedy Steve Huffman can’t sell the fediverse to Google while screwing 3rd party devs and users that make it what it is. But I’d welcome it.

multifariace ,

I miss the reddit I loved. Life is not the same anymore. I can’t just google for anything reddit and find sources. The community was on a level never seen before or after. I too welcome all the people who made it great. Bots and ads and ads and ad bots can have their wasteland.

D61 ,

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

pastermil ,

anti-slave slave owner club

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.

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.

mp3 ,
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

D E F E D E R A T E D

MajorMajormajormajor ,

I’LL I WON’T BE BACK

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 ,
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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 ,

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

Inui ,

Came to say this. Its basically indistinguishable except the numbers are smaller. Its why I stopped using my .ml account too because they spread. They are in your house now https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/799dd88a-9fcc-496d-b657-f89cc5e06999.jpeg

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.

CaptainBasculin ,

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

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