Lets not forget that there is a lot of traffic. Why Redlib and lemmy join forces?
there’s a bunch of Reddit mirrors, no one likes them
Isn’t that just using Reddit with more steps?
No
Its serving reddit content here
Its like going to a restaurant that has its own menu, but also has mcdonalds on a shelf in the back you can ask for
Reddit frontend is a memory hog. Last time I checked eats up a gigabyte on each tabs while lemmy just uses 72MB.
Sort of? But I think it’s still a good idea worth exploring – sort of.
I’m not really sure how posting comments there would work, but if you could essentially “hack” reddit as part of the lemmy-verse, it basically would mean that lemmy would be the better service at that point.
I’m not sure how technically viable it would be though.
I think the whole reason people use Lemmy is because it isn’t Reddit and isn’t subject to reddits rules and manipulations as well as reddits really toxic userbase and astroturfing. Whilst I’m sure this technically could be done, albeit in a very hacky way, the reason as to why is hard to find.
astroturfing
both the epsteing files and gishlaine maxwell case files have proven this to be a dramatic understatement.
they literally identified reddit as a high value platform and used words like “narrative management” and “suppression protocols” to describe their efforts.
astroturfing
i mean that’s what it’s there for? always has been
like, how else do you think companies on the internet make money? by manipulating public opinion
it’s one thing to convince you to buy something and it’s an entirely different thing to condition to you accept that genocides are necessary sometimes; vote against your own interests or else the other team will win; propagandize you against foreign political enemies; distract you from global rings of oligarchical pedofiles who torture, rape, kill and eat children for funsies; and many other things.
As meta almost-showed, the reason “why” is to keep those platforms from interacting with federated-services on their own terms - they can’t control the interaction if no one uses their implimentation.
Leave it to them, and its embrace-extend-extinguish all the way down. Reddit and the rest have used AI-training as an excuse to lock-down and claim owner-ship of user-generated content. Letting them keep users from using our own content how we please would be a mistake.
lemmy would be the better service at that point.
Yeah, it’d become the wine for windows.
didnt reddit make its api worse a while ago ? or was that twitter
