1. Reddit sells its api for high and is about to go for an IPO, its economy bases entirely on the data made by the users/communities. It is the work of the public, get robbed by a small group of individuals. A living example of capitalism.

  2. Fediverse isn’t enough to secure the publicity and usage of public data. What if the host of Lemmy instance also releases the snapshots of all the posts and modlogs, everyday, in the form of bittorrent? Only by doing so, we are safe from the host erasing public knowledge and data brokers.

  • cali_ash
    7·
    4 months ago

    Having a full backup availible over torrent or some other public source would just make it even easier for data brokers. Now they don’t even have to do the scraping anymore.

    • wargreymon2023@sopuli.xyzOP
      2·
      4 months ago

      It is possible to train your own LLM, you can be a data broker, I mean the problem is on the capitalism over data.

      edit: i added “capitalism of” in the title