Submitted 1 day ago by Stefan_S_from_H@piefed.zip to fediverse@lemmy.world
https://digg.com/digg/7vMug1g/wallstreetbets-is-a-rabbit-hole-apparently
On Digg there’s some drama because someone registered the community “/wallstreetbets,” and the admins took it from him and gave it to one mod of the subreddit “r/wallstreetbets.”
One day later I see this discussion about how Reddit registered trademarks for some high-profile subreddits.
This could be relevant for the Threadiverse.
Realistically, won’t matter for us for a few reasons:
We’re small. As much as I like this place and want to see it succeed, we have a fraction of the MAUs that they do.
Given the federated nature, it’s pretty much impossible to police. It’s the same as with the age verification checks for social media and porn, you really can’t do much because you could be federated to another instance that passes it along, or is outside of the jurisdiction
They could go after one instance, but there’s no way they could go after thousands of instances, each which could create the same community name.
So legally could they try to do something? Yes. Realistically no as the size is too small and burden too high.
They only have to make an example of a few to discourage the rest.
The only real safety is with the instances hosted and run in locations difficult for American companies to pursue legal action
Oh boy. Careful what you wish for, reddit.
Someone tell the creator of Girls Gone Wild. Might be time for him to sue. He could make all kinds of legal claims.
Find one girl who submitted nudes to gonewild in 2008 to say she legitimately believed her nudes were going to the Girls Gone Wild agency.
Mega fucked.
Someone tell the creator of Girls Gone Wild.
I don't think Joe Francis is going to be the good guy in this scenario.
I was just using it as an example.
Anything with a trade ark or copyright.
With this move, every company with a subreddit should be saying “all your mods are out. Here’s our guys. We run our subreddit now, not you.”
In this climate?
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Predictions
Showerthoughts
I had no idea Reddit invented having deep thoughts in the shower 🙄, or making predictions
Am I the Asshole?
Yea they can keep that one
Reddit is most certainly the asshole of the internet
… hrm, so what does that make X? Would that be the colon, or the already eXcreted eXcrement?
Digg fucking sucks. It’s just worse reddit with AI bullshit.
Mods are gonna mod.
The trademark belonged to reddit not the person digg gave the community to. Reddit here is not involved but could sue digg foe using the trademark
I don’t think you can get sued for using a trademark as long as your use doesn’t confuse people into thinking you are the original.
Anybody can sue anyone for any reason. Doesn’t mean they’ll win. It depends on who is willing to spend the most money.
Isn’t that ironic (don’t you think)? To be saying that about Digg that came prior to Reddit! (Although I don’t know about wallstreetbets in particular)
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Wait, Digg gave the community to a Reddit moderator so Reddit could control the communities with the same name on both platforms? That’s wild.
That’s also how the corporate side of Reddit works. Someone will register a subreddit, and then a bunch of related ones, so anybody who tries to use any of them has to follow the same set of rules — and if you piss off the wrong person in one, they can ban you from all of them. They can also use their “first” or “official” or even “user count” status to bully smaller subs into redirecting to them. Effectively centralising information.
The Fediverse doesn’t work like that. While the Reddit mods who wish to consolidate power across networks might target lemmy.world, they can’t get all the instances, and they probably won’t try. They’ll just go after the big one, or the big two or three. Some instances will flip them the bird, like I imagine db0 won’t stand for that shit.
Then you will see instances advertising “free speech” as a feature. The question is which will users flock to? The official one, or the free one? But that’s always been the question of Lemmy. You can go on Reddit and toe the line and say paedophiles are people who deserve all the good things in life and keep your account, but if you try to be genuine, they kick you off and make the choice for you.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Oh I hope someone tries to pull this shit in the flotilla…👹
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Yarr
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 day ago
Im trademarking “world”, anyone tries to use it and ill sue you!
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Is this a snowcrash reference?
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
Even better would be them posting to PTB after…
homes@piefed.world 1 day ago
This definitely happens here on Lemme, too. There are asshole mods, here who register a ton of communities, and getting banned from one of them instantly means you’re banned from all of them. I’ve seen this in the mod logs where someone has a relatively innocuous comment removed, then they are suddenly banned from both that community and 10 or 12 other communities. All run by the same moderator.
If you think you escaped asshole mods just because you’re switched over here to Lemmy, think again.
From StumbleUpon to fark to digg to Reddit to Lemmy… Asshole, power-tripping mods are everywhere and aren’t going away.
Coastal_Explorer@feddit.online 1 day ago
Not just mods, but sometimes even instance Admins. This is one of the main reasons why so many left .ml
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
!yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 day ago
Maybe Mastodon does not, but Lemmy, in particular lemmy.ml, works more like that than you realize. e.g. a change is soon going to give lemmy.ml veto power in what communities are allowed to be acknowledged as existing to new instances, which is baked right into the code and there is no way to change it. A third-party listing could have been used instead but… no, this is rather much more on-brand for the Lemmy developers to have chosen.
So it is not a binary “Reddit is authoritarian whereas the Fediverse is not”, but rather we all can easily fall prey to authoritarianism, unless we fight against it.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Your source is 3 months old and doesn’t back up your claims.
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