Fediverse

Realistically, won’t matter for us for a few reasons:

1. 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.

2. 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

3. 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.

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.

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.

Brand confusion, customer deception, lack of proper consent. They could get mega fucked.

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See https://uspto.report/company/Reddit-Inc