Be the change you want to see. Reddit Secret Santa was always a pretty big logistical undertaking, it would take effort to make a Fediverse one.
Also Fediverse users might be less keen on the idea generally, as it involves personal information and addresses. A very cynical take is that harvesting this data was the real purpose of the Reddit SS, which can’t really be ruled out.
Secret Santa is where a group of people all get given the name of one other person, and they have to buy them a Christmas gift in secret. Someone else will buy them a gift, but no one (usually) knows who got them their gift.
Reddit Secret Santa was just the same, but on reddit, and instead of being among a small group of local friends (eg an office) it was done internationally.
Felt this way about lemm.ee :(
So was an encrypted messenger phone “made by criminals, for criminals” - it was financed by the FBI and Australian feds, and they always sent 2 encrypted messages. The main message was securely encrypted for the intended recipient, but hidden alongside it in a single stream was a second encrypted message that stopped at the Anomphones servers and could be decrypted there.
That was more than 5 years ago, and the FBI said they were incredibly keen to do more of this when they revealed the operation in a press release. And people still trust WhatsApp…