Reddit would become compatible with Lemmy essentially making it it’s own “instance”, and suddenly 3rd party apps work with Reddit again.
Full circle.
Best case scenario. As optimistic as I am about Lemmy, Reddit have a massive history which is going to suck to lose when it inevitably implodes like a submarine visiting the Titanic.
That wouldn’t necessarily be a good thing. Someone wrote a good article about how Google bullied their way to kill XMPP. Something to keep in mind with what Meta is planning.
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
My mind has already closed to Reddit. At first it was surprising how quickly I abandoned it, but it’s not really. The Internet is a fast moving place, with sudden trends and viral content being the norm rather than the exception. I like Lemmy so far and it serves the same purpose, perhaps with its own problems but with pros that outweigh the cons. No one person or company owns it. That’s progress.
For me, it felt really easy to leave because I had zero social connections on Reddit. I’m not sure if I’m the weird one, but I never learned any individual users’ names or felt ways about stuff, except in the rare case that they became a meme, like shittymorph. I was there for like 12 years and nothing tied me to it. Moving to the threadiverse was as easy as changing a bookmark.
I’ll certainly miss u/shittymorph.
I would leave Lemmy then. Lemmy is the whole point to not have the CEO, but to own the “platform” by the community.
If Reddit federates, they would have no control over the other instances. You could still be on Lemmy. That’s the whole point of federated sites, they talk to each other without a single sovereign authority.
