Can Reddit survive as its volunteer workforce close down subreddits and walk away from the site in protest at the management's new policies?

Huffman has said, “We are not in the business of giving that [Reddit’s content] away for free.” That stance makes sense. But it also ignores the reality that all of Reddit’s content has been given to it for free by its millions of users. Further, it leaves aside the fact that the content has been orchestrated by its thousands of volunteer moderators.

touché

  • codus@leby.devEnglish
    29·
    1 year ago

    I wonder who owns the content posted on Lemmy. I haven’t seen it explicitly called out as Creative Commons or any other license.

    • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Massively underrated comment. I know legalese isn’t going to be super popular around here, but we can still clarify & enshrine some fundamenatl values here to shore off corporate interests, in the same spirit as copy left. Just because creative Commons are common, and GDPR protects things implicitly (albeit completely untested–perhaps even problematic), that doesn’t mean they don’t warrant mention and protection.

      • koreth@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        GDPR protects things implicitly (albeit completely untested–perhaps even problematic)

        I will grab my popcorn the first time someone seriously tries to pursue a GDPR erasure request for their fediverse content. I don’t think it’s even possible to honor such a request in theory, let alone in practice, given that nodes can come and go from the network and when they go, they could easily keep their local copies of everything.

        • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          In theory you’d have to send a GDPR request to every instance.