Imagine Lemmy becoming so popular it drives Reddit to support ActivityPub or go extinct
Imagine Lemmy becoming so popular it drives Reddit to support ActivityPub or go extinct
Reddit would become compatible with Lemmy essentially making it it's own "instance", and suddenly 3rd party apps work with Reddit again.
Full circle.
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Please no, I didn't quit reddit to have reddit around me again.
We are the corp. You will be assimilated. Your meta and meme distinctiveness will be added to our own. Lower your mods and surrender your communities. Resistance is futile. - Reddit, probably
I mean, if they were to adopt ActivityPub and enable federation, you can pretty much guarantee they'd slap ads next to content pulled in from FOSS instances. Kinda their thing.
So who will be Locutus in that scenario
Who shall be our captain in this interwebspace trek?!
Not spez because spez is willingly fucking up reddit
Spez could be counted as a borg queen
My comment also got me into deep thought about how humanity is like a borg collective but we don't realise it
With the controlling rich being the equivalent of a borg queen and capitalism being the control
"We will take your lands, your children, your traditions, and your future."
- Genghis Khan, probably
Reddit federating would provide us with a much better API for 3rd partys. It would be the walk back of the century.
Did you forget to add /s to your comment?