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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[–] Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't Facebook starting to pay some contributors?

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Some sort of profit sharing arrangement seems to be the trend in social media these days. YouTube has a setup like that of course... Instagram and TikTok both pay people (max of like 100 a month i think) and Twitter is planning to start.

[–] wheresyourshoe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

No idea. It would not surprise me, though. I could see it for people who are "content creators" posting their videos or whatever their form of media is.