Eventually? It's been ongoing.
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I think they’d let it keep going to keep tabs on which websites to tattle to the authorities.
Do I think that reddit will ban easy access to what the general public is doing to pirate media?
No. That information is too valuable and useful when sold to companies looking to target such demographics (for legal reasons or illegal ones).
Do I think people will come here because reddit cracks down on content directly related to how to engage in piracy? Probably but the rate of exchange will be impacted by the friction of doing so.
If all they use reddit for is that? High likelihood they just move. If they use reddit for more than piracy related content. The rate of users who will move gets smaller the more useful reddit is to them outside of piracy related content. The friction added to finding out about and joining Lemmy also play a role.
What's a reddit?
You seem to have the wrong idea of what the fediverse is and how it works.
The Fediverse (commonly shortened to fedi)[2][3][4] is a collection of social networking services that can communicate with each other (formally known as federation) using a common protocol . Users of different websites can send and receive status updates, multimedia files and other data across the network. The term Fediverse is a portmanteau of federation and universe.[5]
The majority of Fediverse platforms are based on free and open-source software , and create connections between servers using the ActivityPub protocol. Some software still supports older federation protocols as well, such as OStatus, the Diaspora protocol and Zot, while newer protocols such as AT Protocol connect via network bridges. Diaspora is the only actively developed software project classified under the original definition of Fediverse that does not support ActivityPub.[6][7]
Design
While a traditional social networking service will host all its content on servers managed by the owner of the website, the decentralized structure of the Fediverse allows any individual or organization to host a social platform using their own servers (referred to as an "instance").
The fediverse isn't one singular entity. It's a bunch of individual independently managed instances that link with each other (or don't, if they so choose) via a shared protocol. Think of it like email.
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