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Wreckingball4good

They’re aware that if they hade complied, it would be the nail in the coffin for a company that is already in bad financial shape. #SteveHuffman doesn’t care about protecting your #privacy. His life depends on it looking like a company worth buying right now.

When you’re posting things online, remember that businesses can and do change hands. The people who started #Reddit are not the people who run Reddit. and they would sell your info if they thought it was good for them. 3/

Shawn Brown :python:

Steve Huffman: "Apollo threatened us, said they'll 'make it easy' if Reddit gave them $10 million. This guy behind the scenes is coercing us. He's threatening us."

Luckily, Apollo developer Christian Selig had proof that Huffman lied.

While the media coverage (and many written subreddit positions) focus on the API changes, it's the justified anger at Huffman's dishonesty that fuels many of the redditor protests.

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#RedditBlackout#RedditProtest#SteveHuffman
Greg Clarke 🇨🇦 :mverified:

While I disagree with u/spez's actions, I understand his perspective. Reddit's most valuable asset is its curated text data for training Large Language Models like ChatGPT. Closing down the API protects that asset. He's likely betting that subreddit moderation will be solved with LLMs so the mods that generated that data are of little concern going forward. There will be only one chance to monetize this data asset.

The reason I disagree with u/spez's actions is because I don't believe this asset belongs to him. I'm sure he's protected from a legal perspective but from a philosophical perspective, when a user writes an idea on an online forum, they don't forfeit ownership of that idea. People who contributed to Reddit even 12 months ago had no idea their thoughts will be monetized and consumed by LLMs. We need laws to protect people's data and to democratize data assets.

I also wish u/spez would just be honest about what he's doing. Telling possibly career ending lies about developers and disregarding the mods that made Reddit is inexcusable. It's clear that Reddit has succeeded despite u/spez's leadership.

#Reddit#RedditBlackout#RedditMigration
Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.social

"CEO #SteveHuffman 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" #RedditMigration

There is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on #UserData | John Naughton | The Guardian
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The GuardianThere is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on user dataBy John Naughton
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