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How would you react if Reddit joined the fediverse? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Similar to the time Soviet Russia wanted to join the anti-Soviet alliance which was trying to pretend wasn't made to plot against the soviets.

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[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Sure Reddit and Lemmy are different technical stacks, but neither is doing anything particularly unique or complicated.

If Reddit wanted to federate it could. It would take some work but it would be an achievable task in a reasonable amount of time.

Perhaps scaling or stability issues. I'm not sure the Fediverse is ready to handle the number of actions a site like Reddit handles. Then again I'm not super well versed on that part of the Lemmy software, so maybe it would be fine.