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butsbutts ,

who knew my old shitposts are worth that much

BrownianMotion ,
@BrownianMotion@lemmy.world avatar

$203M in one licenced transaction. Selling their data to Google. No one is falling for this shit.

cnbc.com/…/reddit-is-a-smaller-more-volatile-twit…

nyakojiru ,
@nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

They need to pay the users with that money

soggy_kitty ,

Delusional comment

frank ,

Or genius. New company idea. Sell data from the start and share revenue with contributors.

dangblingus ,

How? They’re under heavy scrutiny from the FTC over the $60M/month Google deal. Where did the extra $140M come from?

FlashMobOfOne ,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

Probably doesn’t matter, but this is why I deleted my account instead of just locking it up.

webghost0101 ,

With google being the partner i bet the deal wont mention they cant use older backups of reddit that they most certainly have.

FlashMobOfOne ,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

I’m sure you’re right about that. All parties involved are scumbags, after all.

NegativeInf ,

This is why we need better data laws in the US. If I want everything I’ve ever said on your site to disappear both instantly and forever, I should have that option.

Evil_Shrubbery ,

… and thats why Wikipedia is non-profit.

Seeing human (even shitpost) achievements get monetized (in the most sucky manner) one by one is sad af.

SomeGuy69 , (edited )

This is helpful of them, once the EU court fines them, we can quickly calculate how much that will be.

5in1k ,

I hope my fuck Spez comments are useful.

Evil_Shrubbery ,

AIs will fuck Spez for all eternity.

Millennia from now Fuckspez! will be the standard greeting between all sentient species in the galactic federation. It will be even used in machine code as a handshake for establishing initial contact between two subspace relays.

BilboBargains ,

Blow me

kudu ,
@kudu@lemmy.world avatar

It’s data?! You mean our data

cheesymoonshadow ,
@cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world avatar

For everybody who thinks we should get paid for our data, you may want to consider the Data Dividend Project:

www.datadividendproject.com

mondoman712 ,

Access from your Country was disabled by the administrator.

cheesymoonshadow ,
@cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world avatar

Damn, might be a US-only thing then.

ooli ,

time to go edit all my old comment with random garbage generated by chatgpt

d2k1 ,

It is probably way too late for that to make any difference, no?

ooli ,

Probably, but one thing I learned too late in my life is that by being cynical you’re assured to never get anything done

masquenox ,

Reddit says it’s made $203M so far licensing its our data

Fixed that for them.

There’s your “tragedy of the commons” fallacy on a stick, folks - the proles where managing reddit so well that huffman had to break it in order to make it more vulnerable to the parasites.

Pixelemme ,

I wonder if they will ever consider paying the users for the content they provide that constitutes “its” data. 🤔

KISSmyOS ,

The users get a service that costs hundreds of millions to maintain for free.
And no one is forcing them to post valuable content without compensation.

DreadPotato ,
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Well there’s apparently more than 400 million active users every month, so they could charge users a few cent per month and pay for the infrastructure entirely. But they choose to be massive privacy invading assholes.

KISSmyOS ,

If they charged users any amount of money there wouldn’t even be 400000 of them anymore.

DreadPotato ,
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Yes there’d be less, but the amount is purely speculative and you don’t know anymore than I do.

Even if they have to go with the ad-supported model to maintain a large active userbase, that can easily be done without all the tracking. But again, they chose the shittiest option…there’s really a pattern of them just being massive assholes. No matter what options they have, they’ll apparently go for the shittiest one that screws over the users the most.

Socsa ,

This was my attitude until reddit took away my app. Now the site is the poster child for enshitification

ours ,

Pay? They are trying to “stonk” Reddit users by asking them to buy stock for the IPO which screams “We want your data and your money!”.

Pixelemme ,

Yeah. They are giving the users the “privilege” to buy shares at the open market rate. Not even at discounted rates. Again US only. What about the others? They just give their data I suppose.

dangblingus ,

They said they’ll be allowing users to cash out Karma.

RedditWanderer ,

Spez will be happy to know his payout is covered, company is still going to be broke though.

abhibeckert ,

Reddit doesn’t own that data. The community owns it.

Maybe there’s something in the terms of service but that shouldn’t hold water because nobody has ever read that document.

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