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

  • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s literally not “Reddit’s content”. Says so in the user agreement:

    You retain any ownership rights you have in Your Content, but you grant Reddit the following license to use that Content […]

    Huffman should be careful calling it “Reddit’s content” — by claiming ownership, he’s arguably taking on liability.