Processed cheese is not cheese. It's rubber that won't hold air. It's cheese product. The only acceptable use for processed cheese slices is throwing at your little brother. I wouldn't even feed those to a dog.
You just gonna gloss over the whistle dog? C'mon now.
Take two fingers of cheese and nestle a fried or boiled weiner betwixt. Wrap that thoroughly in long strips of lightly cooked peppered bacon, and poke some toothpicks through to hold it all together. Broil in the oven until the cheese starts to get melty. Bonus points if you get some sear on the bacon before all the cheese escapes. Put that on a toasted bun with garlic butter.
Remember to remove the toothpicks. Serve with salsa fries or poutine.
We all know what you mean but for clarification: rif and appolo are apps. What you're talking about is the reddit service/website/backend.
I'd suggested the same thing. They could develop a plug-in system that would allow their apps to interface with any service the user likes: Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Lemmy, Mastadon, imgur, etc... The open source community could then develop plugins for any combination of app/service they like. There's an app called Metal for Android that does both Facebook and Twitter.
The real answer is time, experience, and money. The makers of these apps have fulltime jobs. The apps are a hobby that probably barely covers its own costs.
When announcing the API changes, reddit dragged it out not giving any meaningful info until just a month before enacting it. A month isn't enough time to build a service like reddit. Lemmy for comparison has been in development for years and is still pretty bare-bones.
From what I've heard many of the app devs are re-doing their apps to work one of the federated services, but it takes time.
Standing up a service like Redddit is not cheap or easy. It's requires a lot of server hardware, bandwidth, and money. As far as I know the devs are lone-wolfs. Also many of the users are cheap and don't like paying for stuff. Reddit has been around for 15 years and still isn't profitable, even with reddit premium and advertising.
The experience of developing an app doesn't easily translate to running a service. In the programming world there are app devs, front-end devs, back-end devs, server admins and database admins. It's possible for one person have some experience in all of these (I've dabbled) but to be good at it while also being secure and stable and responsive ... It's daunting.
All that said, modering the content that users post is a nightmare. The reddit mods were volunteers with no real legal liability. The reddit admins on the other hand are on the hook if child-porn gets found in their database.
Thing is, the backend services already exist in the form of Lemmy, Tildes etc. Why re-invent the wheel?
Only stopped because of the cost. I had to step up my dose and the cost is too much at this stage. The insurance company denied me for ozempic because I'm not diabetic. I'm going to try again with Wegovy since it's meant for weight-loss.
Banks have been federated long before we started using the term. They're just a for profit system with a lot of proprietary code. I wonder what a FOSS banking system would look like.
No, not Bitcoin or crypto. Those are currencies but don't provide financial services.
I'd buy a house. Normally that's takes a lot of time but as long as I hand off the money to the realtor I should be good. I don't actually want a million dollar house, and definitely don't want to pay the property taxes on it. But I can resell it later and keep the money this time.
Voat was also competing with reddit during a period of growth by appealing to the more toxic elements of the communities. There wasn't enough of them to sustain an entire service and remain solvent, and they didn't bring anything new to the experience. It was just a reddit clone.
The big difference now is that reddit corp has decided to alienate a severe chunk of their userbase.
I also suspect there were a lot of people who wanted to be part of certain communities, but weren't thrilled with the reddit format. There just wasn't anything else.
Those users are now open to alternatives like Lemmy, or Discord or another federated service. Reminds me of IRC in the 90s. If you got bored of efnet, connect to another network.
The porn would be on it's own instance not federated with the common Lemmy servers. So it wouldn't show up in /all.
Those who want porn would have to actively seek it out by connecting to those instances. More over, if one instance starts allowing unacceptable material, the other instances can blacklist it.
Look up whistle-dogs.