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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 3 years 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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[-] impulse@lemmy.world 108 points 3 years ago

The more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that what really made me delete my account early (I initially wanted to wait until the 30th to see how things play out) was the ridiculous number of people defending this bullshit and promoting the official Reddit app as the superior option.

Some going as far as saying 3rd party devs are leeches and scammers.

I can only tolerate so much stupidity and ignorance before I bail.

[-] funkyb@lemmy.world 19 points 3 years ago

there are are lot of idiots, a lot. I don't know how to fix that, so I just ignore them and move on.

[-] WorldBear@lemmy.world 14 points 3 years ago

You have to promote education as a primary value if you're ever going to have a chance at reducing the idiots. Something at least large portions of the US aren't interested in because dumb people are easier to control.