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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    Would be among the first to suggest a reddit-defederation pact to be honest.

    Kinda like how peeps on Mastodon/Misskey/etc. have their anti-threads pact.

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      Reddit federation would not happen before Steve Huffman’s exit from the company, and given that he is solely responsible for the changes that made Reddit unusable to many, I’d actually encourage federation given that after that happened, Reddit would become just another instance with no API control or ability to affect the goings on of any other part of the ecosystem of apps, servers, communities or even the Lemmy codebase.

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        Reddit would become just another instance with no API control

        Being that large of an instance gives a lot of api control all by itself. Theoretically Chrome is just another browser and member of WHATWG. in practice, if they implement something it immediately becomes a de facto standard. Reddit would be the same.

        I wouldn’t bet on Huffman’s exit doing anything of consequence either. Reddit is now under the control of investors who want a return. One way or another, monetisation of users will increase.