Similar to the time Soviet Russia wanted to join the anti-Soviet alliance which was trying to pretend wasn’t made to plot against the soviets.
I would love it because there are subreddits I use a lot on reddit that don’t have an active equivalent on lemmy at all.
Federating with Reddit completely idiotic for any Lemmy instance.
They will only gain limited traffic, and their userbase will be swamped by Redditors.
There is zero incentive for Lemmy admins to do this, and huge incentives not to do this.
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Lemmy.world already exists unfortunately
I do miss some of the subreddits though
If they do, I surely wouldn’t trust Spez to be acting in good faith. I would expect them to Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish the fediverse
It would give me new respect for reddit’s leadership, given the tight grip they have on their content at the moment.
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?
i feel like it would get defed from places like hexbear pretty fast so it wouldn’t bother me.
It wouldn’t bother me. I wouldn’t subscribe to any subreddits though.
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.
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.
I can still use reddit reader
Same tbh idk if it’s the community or the app for me
Add their instance to my block list
Same.
So I’d get reddit content without having to deal with reddit’s nonsense layout and terrible app? That sounds kinda nice actually.
I mean you’re already getting Reddit content, Lemmy is basically just Reddit reposted.
All the downvotes but literally every post here I see is on Reddit hours or days beforehand.
It’s because people don’t understand that Lemmy.World specifically serves as a Reddit replacement, but other communities don’t serve this purpose.
It demonstrates the misunderstanding that Lemmy.World is Lemmy.
A) It’s not literally every post
B) Stop using reddit. Problem solved.
A) literally means figuratively. Go grab a dictionary and check yourself.
B) Was I complaining about Reddit? If anything, I’m complaining about the fact that Lemmy is much smaller and often delayed in getting me news about current events
If you can’t miss hours in the 24 hours social media cycle, you should probably cut back your exposure my dude.
You’re on Lemmy.world, lol. It was designed to be a FOSS clone of Reddit.
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.
I’m not talking about a bot. Just scroll around and then go to Reddit for a while. Same exact content.
Sometimes i see something on reddit that ive seem already here. Very little is OC
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.
Agreed. Which makes it weird that so many people on here seem somewhat upset with the idea that I’m pointing that out. Though I absolutely think Lemmy gets way way more than it gives.
I’d look at it this way: a lot of people on Lemmy came from Reddit, but people’s reasons for leaving are different.
Some left Reddit for what it was, but still want what it has. Namely, they want the content and community, but they want to access it on their own terms, so they try to recreate it on Lemmy. If Reddit hadn’t fucked with their app access, they’d still be on Reddit.
Others want to actively avoid making Lemmy into Reddit 2.0, seeing it as a failed model, and so they try to prevent the spread of “Reddit-isms” in their instances. It’s a gatekeeping measure to prevent the spread of normies, thereby keeping their communities small, niche, and nerdy.
I’m honestly surprised there are a number of people in here who would push back against the idea of having federated access to Reddit content when this very community is unapologetically a Lemmy analog of Askreddit.
Except for the gifs.
And the thousands of niche communities/subreddits.
Lemmy.world is Reddit 2, most other instances are actually pretty unique.
Instance check
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
The only community I cared about on refit was r/Korea because I was a new migrant here. But I got banned for posting a link to my own website where I uploaded this video https://tube.jeena.net/w/aBpFLKq3x2r9R3aSrBtece which I myself recorded. They said I should have uploaded it to YouTube instead and was banned for ever.
Now I try to build up !korea@lemmy.funami.tech and it’s not going great, basically only lurkers there :D but that’s OK. I’m still so but hurt about being banned that I don’t want them here anyway.
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.
This would be a horrible thing because, even if we get more communities here, reddit now would have the vast majority of the fediverse in their hands. It would only be a matter of time before reddit would pull a microsoft to try and extinguish it.
