What if Reddit federated?

Then we'll be able to see their communities and posts without having to give Reddit ad revenue, so they probably won't do that unless they are really desperate. Even if they attempt something like federate their posts as links to their site, instance owners could just defederate with them, then we're back to square one.

Then they would be a part of the fediverse and people on Lemmy would be able to see reddit content and people on reddit could see Lemmy content.

Not sure what the question is. What are the implications? Would be a pretty big deal for a company like reddit to do that. Never gonna happen with current management, of course.

I think instances would ultimately federate with reddit even though lots of people would make a big stink about it, just like with the Threads thing we saw a few weeks ago.

Pros: The Fediverse would gain a significant amount of users and existing communities.

Cons: Those users would be redditors. While most I've seen are polite, some really love to hate others.

Reddit will never do this. The very act of federation would mean hosting and maintaining a publicly accessible API, and they've already made it clear that not doing that is the hill they are willing to die on.

I suspect all social networks will need to federate eventually. Just like aol had to let the internet in or fade into irrelevance. I hope it’s something more like nostr then the Fediverse but I see this as inevitable.

I agree with most people here. I don't think it'll be something major. We'll just be able to interact with them without having to use that godawful piece of of crap official app. Of course, that's if instances don't defederate. Reddit has porn and other nsfw stuff so maybe a few instances would defederate, but I don't think lemmings would have as bad a reaction like we did with Threads.

Of course, that's never going to happen, as you've said, because of money.

To be honest, if Reddit federated I would stay as far away from that shit as I could, because their only goal in doing so would be to allow their users to create relationships with federated users so that those relationships could later be walled off and monetized. Same reason I won't have anything to do with Threads.

Outside of monetization, there is literally zero upside to Reddit federating anything.

But even if there were, they've already pissed me off. Other people can create content for them, and freely partake of bot-filled subs, and be subjected to arbitrary mod and admin comment removals and bans, and be given no real working accessibility tools, and have their ability to block harassing Redditors jacked around with constantly, and have their karma fucked with for crypto, and have anger triggers tossed at them to get them to engage more, and have legit helpful mods (like r/canning) deposed and scabs installed because the overlords can't control them, and dread the day they kill off old.reddit because the official portals are hot steaming catshit, and have pseudo-religious political HeGetsUs jeebus ads rubbed in their eyes between other ads that just look like posts, and also let Spez tell them daily that he loves them forever and won't cum in their mouth.

Not me. Reddit corporate can fuck themselves, and whatever plans they have, sideways with a rusty lawnmower blade. And for anyone who has a problem with this and thinks there's anything even remotely redeemable about Reddit besides the good people who try to make something worthy out of the shit Reddit corporate ladles out, I don't honestly give a fuck. Whatever you think is good about Reddit just means more for you (congratulations!) because I ain't touching that rancid apeshit crypto-hyping cursed IPO corporate cesspool of sociopathy even from the relative safety of the fediverse.

Yeah, I'm a little bitter. But I don't think it shows. :D

They can. Not sure if they would.

As the other post says - Lemmy users would be able to interact with Reddit, and Reddit users would be able to interact with Lemmy.

But the matter of the fact is -

(Userbase of Fediverse) <> (Userbase of Reddit)

And I believe Reddit bothers only about their own userbase, i.e. registered with them.

If I were spez I wouldn't do it (but F U spez anyway)

They would get defederated pretty quickly for all the shit they allow.

I hope not because there's a lot of Nazis and homophobic people on Reddit. I don't want r/conservative here spreading disinformation like they do and banning anyone who ever raises another viewpoint. Like the other commenters said, they'd probably get defederated because of all the shit they allow. I also don't want all the shitty people of Reddit fighting in the comments.

Would it be a smart thing to do for Reddit to stay relevant after it pissed off so much of its userbase? Probably but they're not exactly known for smart decisions.

It would be awesome and an absolute coup for the fediverse and you can't convince me otherwise.

That would be funny as fuck to see.

Who cares.