Comment on Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says

• Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah but there is a FOSS nature about it. At least ANYONE can do whatever they want with the comments and posts I make public instead of just whichever company pays reddit for API access.

  I mean… True; it’s just I wouldn’t characterize Lemmy as superior on privacy. Ideally we’d figure out a way to fix that, but I’m not sure we can really.

  And reddit has some legal jargon about co-owning the copyright to whatever you post over there but lemmy doesn’t so you technically have more protection here to your own intellectual property.

  This I’m not so sure about. You aren’t handing over ownership rights when you sign up for most (any?) instance, but your ownership right is effectively null and void.

  IANAL but arguably in a US court (at least) since Lemmy is effectively a true public place, you effectively lose the right to tell other people what they can do with your interactions.

  And privacy is a whole different can of worms as I don’t think ruud is harvesting telemetry to sell to advertisers and whatnot.

  That part is arguably true. It is harder to tie this data back to a particular user for the purposes of selling to advertisers.

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  • 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The law is largely down to who argues better in court. There is precedent for reduced rights in public spaces. e.g. if you go into the town square and talk to someone and it’s caught on the camera of the mother a park bench away that’s recording her child … that’s not an illegal recording and she has the copyright on said recording. You have no legal right to ask the mother to delete the recording or delete your audio from the recording, even in a two party consent space because you have no right to privacy in a public setting like that.

      Similarly, when you post on Lemmy … it’s kind of good faith that if you delete something it actually gets deleted from the platform across all instances and that it’s not just visibility deleted but deleted from the databases under the hood.

      You do “own your content” but it’s pretty meaningless ownership.

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      • 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • Dil@is.hardlywork.ing ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    At least yall dont literally legally own my whole ass identity while im on lemmy

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