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.
Ouch
You’re right about the difficulty in running the mail software on a server you administer, but hosting companies can take care of that for you. It’s not hard to run your own mall service, if you go with service as a service instead of rolling your own infrastructure.
I’ve got no less than 5 different domains with my own email service, and I don’t have to deal with the complexities you reference. My hosting provider handles that for me.