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.
Ouch
The fediverse is basically just a bunch of Reddits that can all work with each other.
It needs some streamlining work, but it’s heading in the right direction.
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:
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…)
undefined> You can even read Lemmy posts and reply to them with your mastodon account
Check, works. (dusted off my mastodon account)
Not true, you can create lemmy posts from mastodon, there’s just not a ui or anything for it, I’ve never done it but AFAIK it involves tagging the community at the top of your post