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What if Reddit decides to start it's own Lemmy instance and federate with all other instances? Should those instances federate or not in your opinion? (feddit.nl)

submitted 1 year ago by UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Much like Meta has decided to join the fediverse, Reddit could also decide to setup it's own instance(s) and federate with the existing Lemmy instances.

What is your opinion about that? Should your instance block a Reddit instance? Or would you welcome it?

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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit or Meta/Faecesbook, I think that the conclusion is the same - it's a hostile entity seeking control over this side of the Fediverse, and it should be isolated before it's able to cause damage. If done early enough, we can minimise the annoyance for users and maximise the effectiveness of the pre-emptive defed.

[–] voidf1sh@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Exactly this, if we can stop them in their Embrace phase before they can get to Extend and Extinguish, we should be fine. I think defederating from Meta and Reddit should be any Fedi instances first priority. Though I'm sure some will think it's a great idea as it'll bring more users and content, but it's only a good idea at first while these companies need the Fediverse, as soon as they don't need us they'll fuck it all over like Google did with XMPP

[–] animist@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Reddit's recent actions show that federating is the exact opposite of how they want to run their site, so I don't see this happening any time soon.

[–] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 1 points 1 year ago

A mute would be fine - let users interact with their instances IF they want to, and at their own risk, but otherwise don't recommend them and don't share information with them.