What if reddit joins the fediverse? What are the implications for that if it were even feasible? We would end up with subreddits as communities on Lemmy such as [email protected], perhaps.
What are the community’s thoughts on this, given the new app by Meta that has attempted to join our free society? Do we just defed, and hope that all the popular instances all do the same?
Discuss 🤓
He likely couldn’t “just” do it. The synchronization overhead for federation is large, and with the amount of data Reddit has, you’d have to put a lot of effort into writing efficient code to handle that. Or pay for a lot of servers doing it.
BTW, it would be interesting to see whether current lemmy codebase could handle it as well…