What if reddit joins the fediverse? What are the implications for that if it were even feasible? We would end up with subreddits as communities on Lemmy such as !askreddit@reddit.com, perhaps.
What are the community’s thoughts on this, given the new app by Meta that has attempted to join our free society? Do we just defed, and hope that all the popular instances all do the same?
Discuss 🤓
He likely couldn’t “just” do it. The synchronization overhead for federation is large, and with the amount of data Reddit has, you’d have to put a lot of effort into writing efficient code to handle that. Or pay for a lot of servers doing it.
BTW, it would be interesting to see whether current lemmy codebase could handle it as well…
A reddit instance is conceivable, but the magic of the federation is that no one instance has control. Reddit has control of every subreddit, and they’d lose that control joining the federation. Likewise, there’s no financial gain from having an instance.
Reddit has control of every subreddit, and they’d lose that control joining the federation.
Instance admins ultimately still have control over communities on their instance no? I don’t think Reddit would lose anything.
I’m not sure what they would gain either. I can’t think of anything that would motivate them to join.
If Fediverse is successful and reddit continues its descent then I can see it in 5-10 years, similar to how Digg tried to reimagine itself to stay relevant.
That’d be pretty cool but would take a lot of development time and probably wouldn’t work with their stupid features like messaging and NFT scams
A reddit instance is conceivable, but the magic of the federation is that no one instance has control. Reddit has control of every subreddit, and they’d lose that control joining the federation. Likewise, there’s no financial gain from having an instance.
