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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)

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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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[-] LachlanUnchained@lemmyunchained.net 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If they are going to capitalise on our content and data, are they going to start paying out to users like YouTube and other platforms?

[-] HotBeef@lemmy.podycust.co.uk 8 points 1 year ago

Time to cash in that Comment Karma finally. Someone tell my ex all that time on Reddit wasn't wasted after all.

[-] CannaVet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It would suck if that happened but I'm happier having deleted my old 15 year like 750k karma main and stripping my new one as we speak. I've won enough coin flips to not mind when I Iose one though so whatevs :P