Hypothetically, they could implement some internal api and open Reddit to the fediverse no? What would happen then? (I’m sure they won’t because they want the money… but I’m just speculating…)

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    1 year ago

    Reddit will never do this. The very act of federation would mean hosting and maintaining a publicly accessible API, and they’ve already made it clear that not doing that is the hill they are willing to die on.

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        1 year ago

        ActivityPub is, itself, a client/server api. If they implemented that, there would be no need for access to their private API to do everything that any 3rd party app maker would want to do.