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[The Guardian] There is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on user data (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by dimspace@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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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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[–] TheInsane42@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

Check, works. (dusted off my mastodon account)