CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company

That “corpus of data” is the content posted by millions of Reddit users over the decades. It is a fascinating and valuable record of what they were thinking and obsessing about. Not the tiniest fraction of it was created by Huffman, his fellow executives or shareholders. It can only be seen as belonging to them because of whatever skewed “consent” agreement its credulous users felt obliged to click on before they could use the service.

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  • TechnoBabble
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    181 year ago

    The fediverse is basically just a bunch of Reddits that can all work with each other.

    It needs some streamlining work, but it’s heading in the right direction.

    • @TheInsane42
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      41 year ago

      Nop, the fediverse is an environment where different types of environments can connect to each other.

      As far as I understand there is at least 1 federated alternative for:

      • twitter
      • facebook
      • youtube
      • reddit

      You can even read Lemmy posts and reply to them with your mastodon account, just not create new lemmy posts.

      Not sure about an instagram/whatsapp/discord alternative. (But when the idea will be put into somebodies mind…)

      • @TheInsane42
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        21 year ago

        undefined> You can even read Lemmy posts and reply to them with your mastodon account

        Check, works. (dusted off my mastodon account)

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        For whatsapp/discord there’s Matrix. Also, fun fact: you can subscribe to PeerTube channels from Lemmy