That’s not what Reddit is anymore, maybe if this idea was proposed 10 years ago they’d consider it, but it’s just not an open space anymore.

Would be cool though

Don’t federate with corporations that habitually collect your data to use it against you. Reddit, Meta, Google, doesn’t matter.

I’m in the defederate-with-all-corporations camp. I perceive the goal to be maintaining our own independent identity here as much as possible until our independent Fediverse userbase gets into the millions, at which point we will be large enough to maintain relevance even in the face of heavy-handed competition.

It is theoretically possible for them to go ActivityPub, but I rather doubt they will any time soon. Their strategy towards us so far seems to be to pretend we don’t exist, which isn’t working terribly well so far, but they’re invested I guess…?

I expect Zuck to be a little more planned in his dealing with us. Us growing doesn’t hurt him, so long as it doesn’t happen at his expense. If it does, either some marketing and algorithm tweaks could fix that. If we grow too large and become potentially able to compete with him, he can always purchase individual large Instances from their owners. That is neither illegal nor even unethical.

edit: Forgot this was about reddit at the end there. I think they’re going to slowly dwindle, unless they get someone more visionary in there.

They’ve just killed off third-party apps no way they’d do this as it just completely undos what they’re trying to achieve + allows users with accounts they don’t even own

Reddit thinks its super valuable asset is the lump of data (about 2TB) consisting of archived text that users have posted. They want to sell it for AI training. Meta is more about surveillance, so different incentives. Of course the Reddit archive through 2022(?) is already downloadable via the PushShift torrent, oops.

This would basically mean adding back support for 3rd party apps. Not directly but still. So it won’t happen