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:
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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.
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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
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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.
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Predictions
Showerthoughts
I had no idea Reddit invented having deep thoughts in the shower, or making predictions
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Am I the Asshole?
Yea they can keep that one
This is why we federate. Is your community name taken by people you don’t like or agree with ? Just make your own on another server !
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.
Mods are gonna mod.
