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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?
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.