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.
Lemmy.world is Reddit 2, most other instances are actually pretty unique.
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.
Instance check
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Long as none of them were given mod powers, nbd
Lemmy.world already exists unfortunately
I do miss some of the subreddits though
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 [email protected] 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.
Was it an IP ban?
No just a posting ban on my username. But I’m not an asshole to circumvent it, if they block me then they don’t want me there and then they don’t deserve me contributing there.
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.
They would block lemmygrad, so I don’t really have to care. Being on lemmygrad makes that stuff self selective. 🎉
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.
We already have Lemmy.World no need for two of them
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.
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.
