What if Reddit joined the Fediverse? (media.kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by SamXavia@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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So I have thoughts about what if platforms that we seemly are trying to move away from such as Reddit decided to Fedirate and join the Fediverse.

Do you think it would be beneficial or practical in the long run?

How do you think people would change their thoughts of the Fediverse if platforms like Reddit did do this sort of thing?

What would you do if Reddit did join the Fediverse?

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[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 72 points 1 year ago

You mean if they opened their API and allowed 3rd party clients?

I think it would be great for the Fediverse. Not sure what Reddit gets out of it though.

[-] SamXavia@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

@deegeese More the case of if they made it so their systems linked to ActivityPub and then Federated their servers. I would think that Reddit would get all the content that people are pushing away from Reddit and onto the Fediverse back towards there platform making users most likely not want to leave even more as they get the same thing they enjoy just with more things.

[-] Godort@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If they did that then a few things would happen:

Reddit would get access to all the content for any server they are federated with
Users would be able to see Reddit content from those same servers and could therefore use a 3rd party app to access it

This would lose Reddit out on all the advertising dollars they were hoping to achieve through this boondoggle forcing people to use their app.

[-] SamXavia@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@Godort Sounds like a pretty big positive for the Fediverse tbh.

[-] DannyMac@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

At this point, they can completely fuck off because I have old.lemmy.world now

[-] SamXavia@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@DannyMac Fair enough, didn't know they had the older UI of Reddit for Lemmy.

[-] starman@programming.dev 18 points 1 year ago

Why would they allow landed gentry to access their precious site through those pesky 3rd party apps?

[-] CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I would absolutely love it! The more the merrier.

The possibility does seem pretty remote, though, since it would allow us to consume Reddit content without seeing Reddit ads, which seems to be a huge emphasis for the company right now.

[-] Nemo@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Hey! I know you!

[-] beefbaby182@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'd be for it. Would be nice to finally delete my old reddit account, but still be able to occasionally check in on a few niche subs.

[-] SamXavia@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@beefbaby182 Yeah here's for either Reddit going down or for them to possibly join the Fediverse

[-] beefbaby182@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

As much as I'd like to be able to see subreddits on the fediverse, I'd be more worried spez having influence than zuck (threads).

[-] SamXavia@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@beefbaby182 that is a fair point just hope Reddit falls slowly to force users to move across to platforms like Lemmy and Kbin

[-] beefbaby182@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I really need to dip my toes into kbin and see what that's all about. I've heard nothing but good things about it and I've definitely taken to Lemmy quicker and easier than I did to Mastodon.

[-] SamXavia@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@beefbaby182 Yeah it's like a mix of both Lemmy and Mastodon, Has a few features missing here and there but they seem to be added quite quickly.

[-] Arotrios@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It's pretty much already here, at least the posts that are worthwhile - there are plenty of people cross-posting content, although most are avoiding linking directly to Reddit. I think that if an instance chooses to federate with Reddit, they'd be reducing the overall quality of their content. That being said, it's mostly harmless in this context, as I can't really see folks who already use the Fediverse signing up on Reddit as a result.

I'd be more worried about Reddit using federation to scrape content from the Fediverse (although not as worried as I am about Meta). One of the main reasons I post to the Fediverse rather than Reddit now is because I don't want Spez making money off my content, and any additional audience Reddit would bring my content in exchange is of dubious quality at best.

[-] Khouzzeth_Froststone@latte.isnot.coffee 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit join fediverse ? And let anyone crawl their massive data, user generated content for free ?

Never. Reddit need that in IPO.

[-] SamXavia@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@Khouzzeth_Froststone Then if the Fediverse is the best option for people to move to (What it does look like it), They will slowly crash and full if their user experience keeps slowly becoming worse.

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