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?
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.
@AccidentalLemming We need to make sure that these big tech companies donβt fall to quickly as outages of the Fediverse could kill it pretty quickly if the millions of users from even one platform did try to move across all at once.
Fair point. We want a trickle then, not a flood. This means that reddit needs to be consistently bad, the shitty user experience needs to continue for a long time, with constant attention on the same, so that more and more people want to leave it and move somewhere better.
@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.
If they did that then a few things would happen:
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Reddit would get access to all the content for any server they are federated with
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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.
At this point, they can completely fuck off because I have old.lemmy.world now
Why would they allow landed gentry to access their precious site through those pesky 3rd party apps?
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.
Thats just reddit suicide part 2 and would involve revoking the api Desaster.
@CookieJarObserver They as well as Twitter seem to be trying to kill themselves anyway. The more people jump off these platforms and move the Fediverse, the more likely these big tech social medias will most likely try and hold onto the Fediverse to try and survive.
