Never going to happen. They’ve been going the total opposite direction for a long time
this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2023
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Spez is too busy sucking on his own dick and the rest of the board can’t seem to get their heads out of their own asses
They explicitly removed the ability to access their content through their API to push first party frontends. This would never happen
Could they pull fediverce content into reddit though?
I suppose they could scrape content like some bots do on lemmy, but why bother.
Could you imagine the loop of Reddit stuff being scraped to Lemmy and back again?
It would be just like them to try and jump on the train. They will try and do it in some way that allows them to absorb content without letting any Reddit content leak out. However they will likely do it in a buggy, half-assed way that doesn't really work right before it gets abandoned and left to rot.
That sounds more like reddit!
Just like with Threads, you have to ask - why are they doing it? What's in it for them? How good an internet citizen are they? And the answers for me, just like Threads, are not good for the fediverse.
Some of the replies to people against Threads federating are that those of us who don't like the idea are isolationists who don't want the fediverse to grow. They're wrong. Nobody I know is protesting WordPress federating, or Discourse or Flipboard or microblog or (if it happens) Tumblr. The fediverse getting bigger is not a bad thing. But the likes of Meta and reddit are not good internet citizens. Being picky and having standards about choosing to federate with entities like that is the most responsible thing we can do.
To give a contrary answer; I think it would be a sign that Reddit has turned in the right direction and might actually become a good platform again. A reformed Reddit is infinitely better than whatever Meta are planning.
Which is of course why they won't do it.
Exactly ... and the lesson then wouldn't be to ditch lemmy/kbin/fediverse and declare "we only need reddit now". The lesson would be that you need countermeasures to keep the corps honest and you should never let up on such pressures.
Seeing how some communities have bots. Who post Reddit content on to Lemmy. Also since the 0.19 update, users can block instances. So nothing will happen. If Reddit does that.
EDIT People wanted the Fediverse to get more popular. So more popular it gets, more big companies and an like will join the Fediverse. So mission accomplished, everyone. 🥳
I saw the release notes but still have no clue how to block an instance and whenever I google it I find months old posts.
Any idea how I can block an instance?
World is still on 0.18.5. So no.
That functionality is coming in 0.19.0. Some instances have already updated, but someone else here said lemmy.world hasn't yet.
"People wanted the Fediverse to get more popular. So more popular it gets, more big companies and an like will join the Fediverse. So mission accomplished, everyone."
Yeah, except certain people won't see it that way and will bitch instead then demand an entire instance defederate rather than curate their own feed. /sigh
"So nothing will happen."
Agreed, it’s annoying
Personally, I'd find it easier to just move to another instance than do all that.
I think it’d be great to be able to see Reddit content if I wanted, and ignore it if not. I left because I’m a mobile user, not because I dislike Reddit content. It would also significantly lower the barrier of entry to Lemmy, so they’ll never do it.
If they did that, Reddit would just be an aggregator app of the Fediverse with different communities acting as a new subreddit. The difference would be that they'd have ads and algorithms.
On the Fediverse side, it'd be like having a lemmy.ml with 1000x the traffic and activity. We probably have to defederate to keep up with the traffic and the trolling.
On the plus side, 3rd party apps will be back baybee!
Then I'd only ever use Fediverse instances that didn't federate with Reddit. Just like with Threads.
I'd probably look for an instance that does not federate with instances that federate with Reddit. Yes, two levels of separation.
Because only a small part of my hate against Reddit is about the stupid, backstabbing, obnoxious and disingenuous administration. Most of it is about the userbase. I do not want to deal with 90% of the Reddit userbase and its stupidity.
It reaches the point that I don't know if "I dun unrurrstand, u think dat 50 is not 100? than u think dat 50 is zero? dats dumb lol lmao [insert same emoji 10x] EDIT: WOW THANKS FOR THE GOLD KIND STRANGER!" exaggerates or accurately represents their [lack of] reasoning.
yupp people there are really rubbish !!
Btw people became serious I was just joking 😅
No. Just no.
Wouldn't this be a complete win for the concept of open technology? Like didn't half of lemme end up here because of the reddit api bullshit?