Dumb question for the Lemmy lawyers, if enough redditors joined could a class action lawsuit be filed to be paid for their content… Or is that so outside of the TOS that it’s not worth considering?

In technical terms you mean doing an incremental or differential back up to a local network storage location, correct?

This alongside using Backblaze is what I would suggest assuming you are thinking online. Cheap and reliable, also relatively easy via a cron job. https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/1260804565710-Quickstart-Guide-for-Rclone-and-B2-Cloud-Storage

The link sending is a bit convoluted, but once you figure it out it is a beautiful app.

I’ve got one to sell if we could figure delivery out. How can I contact you?

A transcript for those who prefer to read. (using flixier so forgive the lack of speaker indication and the few corrections I made.)

Transcription:

[redd]it is very unhappy that people are talking to us.

They have decided that their official position is that they will wait for us to make mistakes and then issue corrections in order to discredit our journalism.

That’s straight up what they’re doing.

I know this is what they’re doing because we have a statement because they told us.

They told us Tim Rami, who runs coms at Reddit. This is the blanket statement will no longer comment on hearsay.

Unsubstantiated claims or baseless accusations from the verge will be in touch as corrections are needed.

Oh, my God.

I’ve been playing this game a long time.

We’ll wait for you to make a mistake.

So then we can correct you and say your reporting was wrong is the oldest trick in the book and we are just not gonna fall for it.

So we’re just gonna print this statement in every story from here on out, like that’s the way it’s gonna go.

If they want us to get it right they can… They can tell us what is actually happening, but I will come back to we’re gonna take the people on the ground.

We’re gonna take the users.

We’re gonna take the moderators.

We’re gonna take the employees every time.

And if you think they’re wrong, you can tell us and you can explain why they’re wrong.

But we’re not gonna stop because you’ve you’re running like a 1920 press playbook.

Like whatever.

Like I’m we’re just gonna burn you every time and that it’s that attitude.

It’s this aggressive posture where people are worried and they’re coming to reporters and saying,

Here are our worries.

Here’s the communication we have received that makes us feel threatened.

And Reddit’s response is Shut up.

That’s what breaks your community.

Telemetry, even scrubbed, can provide enough meta data to de-anonomize the user. If the goal is to reduce your threat vectors, than it’s a valid concern.

Given data breeches are increasing, the less data that is collected the better.

RIF user of many years. Pissed at Reddit. Although I see the financial motive for the API, the scumbag disingenuous moves have me believing it has jumped the social media shark and I had to move on.

Loved RIF, will miss the niches of Reddit, and this APIcalypse has opened my eyes to the deeper values of Reddit, but change is inevitable though.