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Why haven't anyone done this?
(lemmy.ml)
Lets not forget that there is a lot of traffic. Why Redlib and lemmy join forces?
I think the whole reason people use Lemmy is because it isn't Reddit and isn't subject to reddits rules and manipulations as well as reddits really toxic userbase and astroturfing. Whilst I'm sure this technically could be done, albeit in a very hacky way, the reason as to why is hard to find.
both the epsteing files and gishlaine maxwell case files have proven this to be a dramatic understatement.
they literally identified reddit as a high value platform and used words like "narrative management" and "suppression protocols" to describe their efforts.
i mean that's what it's there for? always has been
like, how else do you think companies on the internet make money? by manipulating public opinion
it's one thing to convince you to buy something and it's an entirely different thing to condition to you accept that genocides are necessary sometimes; vote against your own interests or else the other team will win; propagandize you against foreign political enemies; distract you from global rings of oligarchical pedofiles who torture, rape, kill and eat children for funsies; and many other things.
like, i see what you mean but i'm afraid that modern society doesn't see it that way. "moral relativism" (a.k.a. post-structuralism) states that there is no absolute truth, neither is there an absolute set of ethics; and as a consequence, it must be possible to negotiate these ethics on the "free market of ideas", a.k.a the internet where big influencer institutions pay to sway your opinion. It's all just a market game: Buy and sell opinions, and see which ones perform best as a consequence.
my previous comments is evidence enough that modern society's views are skewed through a lenses shaped by those big influencers enough that there's no such thing as a free market; only a capture one.
As meta almost-showed, the reason "why" is to keep those platforms from interacting with federated-services on their own terms - they can't control the interaction if no one uses their implimentation.
Leave it to them, and its embrace-extend-extinguish all the way down. Reddit and the rest have used AI-training as an excuse to lock-down and claim owner-ship of user-generated content. Letting them keep users from using our own content how we please would be a mistake.