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.
Lemmy.world already exists unfortunately
I do miss some of the subreddits though
Poorly, I left for a reason.
I’m here mostly because the implementation is superior. If Reddit was accessible directly from here, it’d be a total win-win imho.
It would also be a lose-lose for them, as it would open up their data to free-of-charge use via API without any benefit for them – so it’s not going to happen.
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
For real tho I like this place better.
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.
Instance check
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 putting 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.
All the downvotes but literally every post here I see is on Reddit hours or days beforehand.
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.
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 is Reddit 2, most other instances are actually pretty unique.
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
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.
Same tbh idk if it’s the community or the app for me
i feel like it would get defed from places like hexbear pretty fast so it wouldn’t bother me.
They would immediately defed lemmygrad and hexbear, so it would not make a difference.
OK, I’ll get stoned for saying this, but I’d welcome it if done properly.
It’s a large user base, lots of niche communities.
The more complicated part would be moderation, as that’s already a problem now. Also, resources may be a problem.
None of its supposed assets make up for the corporate overlords who run it and promote or permit all sorts of terrible things
As long as it didn’t pollute the fedi timeline with ads, AI slop and partnered posts, that’d be OK to me… (If someone worrying about our posts/comments being used by AIs, it’s already happening even for those instances that does not federate with Threads; Proofs? Once I searched for my own username and I got surprised on how my fediverse posts are spread all across the results through federated instances that I never heard about, so if my fedi content shows on Google, it’s certainly being fed to some AI datasets)
people just dont understand how public the fediverse is.
It is radically public. It’s designed to broadcast your content to hundreds of other peoples’ computers running all manner of different software which might then rebroadcast it to yet more. The whole architecture is oriented toward spreading things far and wide, and what tools exist to restrict the audience or retract content already shared are little more than polite suggestions.
That’s not a flaw, but people using it should understand how it works so they don’t run into surprises.
It cannot because of copyright constraints. It sells it’s data to others.
But look, if Reddit did, at least people could use third party and free apps.
I would get banned from their instance for saying I approve of people physically fighting Nazis. It would be nice to have more people to fill out niche communities though.
