Reddit would become compatible with Lemmy essentially making it it’s own “instance”, and suddenly 3rd party apps work with Reddit again.

Full circle.

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    My mind has already closed to Reddit. At first it was surprising how quickly I abandoned it, but it’s not really. The Internet is a fast moving place, with sudden trends and viral content being the norm rather than the exception. I like Lemmy so far and it serves the same purpose, perhaps with its own problems but with pros that outweigh the cons. No one person or company owns it. That’s progress.

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      For me, it felt really easy to leave because I had zero social connections on Reddit. I’m not sure if I’m the weird one, but I never learned any individual users’ names or felt ways about stuff, except in the rare case that they became a meme, like shittymorph. I was there for like 12 years and nothing tied me to it. Moving to the threadiverse was as easy as changing a bookmark.

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        Yeah it’s support a platform, make that platform dependent on you, then abandon the platform. The users who remain are left with the option of abandoning the platform as well, or sit in a graveyard.

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      That article was a really interesting read! In my opinion, while integration can be a good thing for many aspects of the world, we can’t expect the giant company to not try to swallow us whole, which is why we must stand up to monopolies.

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      Very good writeup. I remember learning about XMPP with gtalk and then it fading away. These things happen, and if we don’t remember, well…

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      We are the corp. You will be assimilated. Your meta and meme distinctiveness will be added to our own. Lower your mods and surrender your communities. Resistance is futile. - Reddit, probably

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    Best case scenario. As optimistic as I am about Lemmy, Reddit have a massive history which is going to suck to lose when it inevitably implodes like a submarine visiting the Titanic.

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    I would leave Lemmy then. Lemmy is the whole point to not have the CEO, but to own the “platform” by the community.

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      If Reddit federates, they would have no control over the other instances. You could still be on Lemmy. That’s the whole point of federated sites, they talk to each other without a single sovereign authority.