It is mirrored by a lot of people privately: for marketing purposes, by intelligence agencies, etc. Most people do not realize this. Additionally, most people do not realize that their presumed legitimate websites are censoring information and/or pushing certain narratives. The downside from that is great, and will only show itself more as time goes on.

>Also while I'm sure there are people saving this data privately, there are very few public stores. Major difference.

There are multiple public services but they aren't as good as unreddit imo - was incentive to make a better one. I also don't see a major difference - instead of the NSA having a monopoly on mining your internet accounts, why not democratize it and expose it? I see no difference when storing the data whether or not it is public.

>This is kind of like robbing people to remind them to lock their doors in order to prevent robbery.

I disagree. No violation of property rights occurs by recording what is happening in public in the present for future viewing.

> Do you mean the reddit moderators or the reddit admins?

Both. The admins are involved with intelligence agencies and marketing, and the mods are too as far as I can tell.

We have different ethics perhaps :) I do really appreciate your criticism, just trying to give my side / my thoughts on it.