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

I'm not sure if I wasted my time, but I spent a few hours today editing all of my posts on Reddit to be a single comma or period. I didn't comment or post a lot by any means, but just got irritated enough to try to keep from contributing in any way to Spez profiting off of user provided content.

[–] spark947@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Can't shreddit do this in bulk? I am considering doing it for my comments, but I think I will just leave them up there. I did have a great time on reddit until they announced their API changes, so I will leave them with that much. But I did get a backup of everything I wrote using bulk downloader.

But I am still considering just doing a shreddit just for kicks.

[–] lemba@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I did the same thing a few days ago. I used the browser add-on called Reddit Enhancement Suite to delete all my posts and comments. Instructions: https://www.alphr.com/how-to-delete-all-reddit-posts/

[–] penguinv@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

so sad. Not opposing but like burning a forest.