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Re:Reddit raises $410M in new funding by trts on Thursday August 12, 2021 @01:04PM (#28158795)
> if Reddit were to strongly disallow any or all of the above we have seen how EASY it is to simply clone the tech and re-host

this seems doubtful to me. Reddit has tons of legendary threads, AMAs and is its own library of content at this point, similar to YouTube. Sure the tech could be replicated but the value is all in the content it generated.

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Re:Reddit raises $410M in new funding by wintermutestwin on Thursday August 12, 2021 @05:16PM (#28161588)
Maybe that points to a way they could make $: curate and make anthologies of the actually valuable content. /r/askhistorians content could be turned into a few history books.

Of course, then people might start looking at the fact that they are giving away valuable property to Reddit in return for access to a simple forum site...

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Re:Reddit raises $410M in new funding by BeFlatXIII on Thursday August 12, 2021 @05:32PM (#28161779)
There are plenty of Reddit archiving and mirroring services. Pay one of those for a database dump and you’re off to the races (copyright issues be damned)
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