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What if Reddit joined the Fediverse?
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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?
It's a great idea, but I don't feel like it's realistic to how tech companies generate value to angel investors. Unfortunately, the ActivityPub team is a bit aggressive towards larger companies adopting it, and investors are not often keen on working with bodies they don't control.
It would be so cool to see what the Fedi could do with sheer volume.
@msprout Yeah I wasn't really asking for the logistics of it, I understand that it is most likely impossible at least with Reddit and other big tech like them. From what I've read Tumblr is interested themself moving across to the Fediverse, I just wanted to know what people think would happen if they had the green light from the ActivityPub team to move into the Fediverse and what sort of lasting effects that could have for the future of the Fediverse.
It's hard to get excited now days when a company makes a move that sounds amazing on paper. Especially when looking at chromium which being open sourced is great, but then with Google having so much influence over it and chromium browsers having such huge market share it makes you wonder if that was always the initial intended goal they had from the get go even if it took decades.
Being open source doesn't make something not susceptible to suddenly finding itself held captive by corporate decisions if a majority of development and compatability is now hugely dependent on it. It would be hard to not wonder what their actual angle is.
Ahh okay, I'm sorry for misinterpreting.
Honestly, I think it would cause the same style of dustup as Meta joining. Lots of preemptive defederation, and a lot of struggle over how to integrate communities who are federating.
Me personally, I would love that. To me, the single best value prop for the Fedi is that you can basically choose your own adventure and form a lens of browsing ActivityPub for the kinds of content you're interested in only.
So being able to, say, subscribe to /r/simpsonsshitposting on my Mastodon account would be killer. In fact it would be amazing to just interface with Reddit's image content like I would Mastodon, instead of thread by thread.
So I guess TLDR is, I would predict that the Fedi will continue to be reactionary in nature, but it would overall be a very positive thing for the Fedi (as long as ActivityPub is not captured by corporate interests the way that XMPP was).
@msprout Yeah I would love to see what Reddit would do if they did but I wouldn't want them taking control over the protocol or anything in that matter.