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…)
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…)
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.
Actively trying to die on, no less!
They could implement ActivityPub and keep their closed API
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.