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nashashmi ◴[] No.36435534[source]
This is lame. The poster made a good point. If it’s not your platform, then you don’t own it.

so if I started a new sub Reddit that was part of a particular company initiative and connected people with it, I would not own that sub Reddit because it is not my platform.

this is a problem.

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bdcravens ◴[] No.36436105[source]
You are correct. Any content created on someone else's site isn't yours - Youtube, Facebook, HN, etc. Even Gmail. We are making a tradeoff for reach, access, performance, etc.
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1. fknorangesite ◴[] No.36438579[source]
This is completely, utterly incorrect. From Reddit's own terms:

> You retain any ownership rights you have in Your Content, but you grant Reddit the following license to use that Content: ...

https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement/