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
didnt reddit make its api worse a while ago ? or was that twitter
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
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.
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.
Reddit frontend is a memory hog. Last time I checked eats up a gigabyte on each tabs while lemmy just uses 72MB.
