• Salamander@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    “Reddit represents one of the largest data sets of just human beings talking about interesting things,” Huffman said. “We are not in the business of giving that away for free.”

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      “But we we do ask that the people talking about things give us a perpetual irrevocable license to all the IP they share here until the universe fizzles out into nothingness, and the people moderating our site do so for free because being in my Speztastic presence is enough.” -Spez, probably

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        Exactly. I really enjoyed posting on reddit, but the idea that they see our comments as a trove of data to monetize at the expense of the community that created it really makes me never want to contribute again. Too bad I made the mistake of not deleting all of my comments or replacing them with junk when deleting my account :/