How would you react if Reddit joined the fediverse?

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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So I'd get reddit content without having to deal with reddit's nonsense layout and terrible app? That sounds kinda nice actually.
- Which makes me think they won't do that, at least until they realize their current plan won't work out in the long run. So far they've been going in the opposite direction by locking down everything:
  
  killing off third party apps
  
  making it difficult to access on old Reddit or mobile web
  
  only letting search engines index the site if they pay
  
  talk of paywalling subreddits
- I mean you're already getting Reddit content, Lemmy is basically just Reddit reposted.
  
  Not when you block that reposting bot. Every once in a while I'll see something that's a screenshot from reddit, but that's fine. We can get content from all over. Reddit used to get 9gag screenshots and commenters would throw up in their mouths a little over that.
  
  I'm not talking about a bot. Just scroll around and then go to Reddit for a while. Same exact content.
  
  That's just the Internet now. Every site has content pulled from other sites and their share of local content. Then it gets reposted with more compression artifacts each cycle until it degrades and returns to the earth.
  
  Agreed. Which makes it weird that so many people on here seem somewhat upset with the idea that I'm pointing that out. Though I absolutely think Lemmy gets way way more than it gives.
  
  Sometimes i see something on reddit that ive seem already here. Very little is OC
  
  Except for the gifs.
  
  And the thousands of niche communities/subreddits.
  
  All the downvotes but literally every post here I see is on Reddit hours or days beforehand.
  
  A) It's not literally every post
  
  B) Stop using reddit. Problem solved.
  
  A) literally means figuratively. Go grab a dictionary and check yourself.
  
  B) Was I complaining about Reddit? If anything, I'm complaining about the fact that Lemmy is much smaller and often delayed in getting me news about current events
  
  If you can't miss hours in the 24 hours social media cycle, you should probably cut back your exposure my dude.
  
  You're on Lemmy.world, lol. It was designed to be a FOSS clone of Reddit.
  
  Lemmy.world is Reddit 2, most other instances are actually pretty unique.

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