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.
So I’d get reddit content without having to deal with reddit’s nonsense layout and terrible app? That sounds kinda nice actually.
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
I mean you’re already getting Reddit content, Lemmy is basically just Reddit reposted.
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.
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.
Sometimes i see something on reddit that ive seem already here. Very little is OC
Lemmy.world is Reddit 2, most other instances are actually pretty unique.
Instance check
Except for the gifs.
And the thousands of niche communities/subreddits.
All the downvotes but literally every post here I see is on Reddit hours or days beforehand.
You’re on Lemmy.world, lol. It was designed to be a FOSS clone of Reddit.
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.
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.
Lemmy.world already exists unfortunately
I do miss some of the subreddits though
Wdym, reddit already joined fediverse, it’s called lemmy.world.
Hey! As a person who used to use reddit but got tired of how terrible it was then moved to the first Lemmy instance I could find, I… Agree? I’m not really sure.
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
We already have Lemmy.World no need for two of them
Would be among the first to suggest a reddit-defederation pact to be honest.
Kinda like how peeps on Mastodon/Misskey/etc. have their anti-threads pact.
Reddit federation would not happen before Steve Huffman’s exit from the company, and given that he is solely responsible for the changes that made Reddit unusable to many, I’d actually encourage federation given that after that happened, Reddit would become just another instance with no API control or ability to affect the goings on of any other part of the ecosystem of apps, servers, communities or even the Lemmy codebase.
Reddit would become just another instance with no API control
Being that large of an instance gives a lot of api control all by itself. Theoretically Chrome is just another browser and member of WHATWG. in practice, if they implement something it immediately becomes a de facto standard. Reddit would be the same.
I wouldn’t bet on Huffman’s exit doing anything of consequence either. Reddit is now under the control of investors who want a return. One way or another, monetisation of users will increase.
D E F E D E R A T E D
I’LLI WON’T BE BACK
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.
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.
That’s the same as asking how we would feel if Facebook decided to join the fediverse. The way instances reacted to that, would be the way they’d react to reddit, or twitter, or any of the enshitified tech giants.
I’ll be honest, I’d be happy. I know Reddit as a whole sucks, but there are individual communities that still hold value. I miss active communities for niche crafts, I miss fandoms, and I miss actual life-changing shit like trans DIY, especially for countries outside the US.
I mainly stopped using Reddit because they killed third-party apps. If I could access Reddit from here, that’d be a pretty sweet deal for me.
I agree, as much as I hate Reddit’s leadership and a lot of the toxicity of the hivemind, it will be a long time before anything reaches the level of niche communities it has with a critical mass of users and I miss some of them.
Sometimes you just want to geek out about something small with the 40 people across the planet that actually care about it.
Poorly, I left for a reason.
lemmy.world is already federated
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
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
For real tho I like this place better.
You’re looking for Lemmy.world, and the answer is that it swallows up the larger part of the main federated instances, and becomes one of the worst instances.
Everyone would likely defederate from them, much in the same way that you all rushed to close the shutters upon Threads.
I also don’t ever see this happening, unless Spez fucks up with Reddit so badly that it sparks a mass user exodus, much in the same way that Digg v4 sank any hopes of Kevin Rose remaining a successful tech entrepreneur.
I feel like the difference with Threads is Meta is owned by a much larger threat that can’t be trusted not to use Embrace Extend Extinguish in some evil genius way that ends up working.
Reddit’s owned by some dummy that did a lot of damage to his own platform but isn’t known to be smart enough or have the resources to threaten the fediverse.
I haven’t heard of that name in a long time.