The [stuff in brackets] is editorial. That's when they add on their own reference to something said elsewhere.

In this case, huffpig didn't actually say content. He said data.

It's actually worse, because it dehumanizes everyone on reddit, via that the data is our only value to him.

So, fuck huffpig

By that logic I guess he will have to start paying redditors for their content.

Why not post the whole sub-section:
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It used to just be a regular forum for people to post and discuss. It was special because of the upvote/downvote karma system. The user count got money hungry people's attention, it went corporate and it became a place to take in revenue.

Now people have learned from it, and used it to create their own forums based on the structure of Reddit.

The thing that made Reddit special was it was everything you wanted all in one place, instead of having multiple forums on multiple different websites for multiple different interests, it was all on Reddit.

Now we have the fediverse, it's multiple different websites, that follow the same principles, and they all work harmoniously with one another.

Just like nature finds a way, genuine humanity finds way too, even on the internet.

Personally I've left it for good. Lemmy is so active and diverse I don't miss reddit at all. I'm still sometimes looking at it through Boost, but come July 1st I'll be gone forever

I feel like Reddit has been teetering for a while.

It’s been a great move. I have been back to Reddit a couple times since and the anger is striking after being here for a bit.

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.

Technically every instance should have it's own T&C. I believe over on feddit.de they had a disclaimer somewhere.

Honestly kind of a hilarious misunderstanding of Lemmy too. Beehaw will never replace reddit because they explicitly do not want to and have already taken aggressive steps to make sure that they don't (i.e. detailed application requirements and defederating multiple instances).

Because people keep unintentionally hyping up Beehaw, they do not understand that Beehaw is nothing special and that everyone would be better off unsubscribing from its communities to let it be its own island since it doesn't like the whole federation concept anyway (at least not since it finished exploiting it to grow to its current user count). I already unsubscribed from all their communities after their dick move.

To be fair, much of the modern news cycle comes from Reddit. When I worked as a tech journalist years ago, we had half a dozen bots watching relevant subs and alerting us to breaking news. We'd clean it up, fact-check, call sources for comment, and do all the "journalistic" stuff you'd expect, just like with any other story, but Reddit was absolutely part of our workflow. You've got to look for news wherever the news is happening, be that a press release, a leak on twitter, or a convo on Reddit, and frequently it happened to be Reddit.

These days you even have tictokers cutting out the middleman and straight-up reading r/AmITheAsshole posts over Minecraft footage for views. Is it any surprise that news sites are commenting on their content firehose being turned off?

It kind of makes sense. Reddit is one of the most visited websites in the world. It has more DAUs than Twitter.

Spez can upvote deez nuts

Have you ever visited an unmoderated sub? Without moderators, reddit would turn to shit instantly.