I can’t find anything like what you’re describing - my instance has a legal notice which is just a disclaimer saying they can’t be held liable, lemmy.world has a fair use and terms of service which are 404s and their privacy policy just says they won’t sell your data (but might use it for internal research) - can you tell me what you mean?

if they run a mastodon instance, you’d be federating with them just as much.

are you sure these comments are somehow protected by copyright and they can’t use them? when I post publicly like this I have no expectation of control over use.I’d be very surprised if I could somehow sue a company using this comment to train AIs.

I’d also be surprised if that status changed somehow if the server was then connected to threads?

they can already download what people are sharing. that’s not what this is about.

if they want to train AIs on your data they can scrap it from the regular feed without any integration. If they needed federation to do it they could just set up a mastodon instance to grab the data - but they don’t.

it would be good to have some kind of linking.

my feed is usually ten copies of the same thing posted to similar communities on different servers

I’m not very outraged. It’s a chatbot, not an employee who should “know better”

also Hitler was an effective leader, which we should all remember as a cautionary tale about how effective horrible people can be

pretending he was bad at everything because we hate him is a great way to not learn from history

embedded tweets just look like they have a close button now

I’m enjoying the irony of the automatic ai summary to read this for us.

I don’t want a factory job though. I want a world that’s organised well enough that people don’t starve when you don’t have menial labour for them to waste their lives on to justify being fed.

feeding and housing is just logistics and we’re good at that. let the robots do physical work and continue feeding people as before.

I can totally see myself setting up an instance as a fun weekend project, letting people use it, then coming back a month later and finding a nazi hellhole. when you’re doing something for fun/free it’s easy to not take the boring and time consuming parts seriously.

Bruce Y Lee is only producing one a day but if you include Bruce A through X Lee, you get a lot more articles…

he could easily just be a bit burnt out and be using chat gpt to give him the bones of an article and a bunch of “amusing” phrases and stringing it together himself.

it’d probably what I’d do if i was a journo right now.

I’m a developer and I always leave telemetry on … when it’s my code I find it useful when there’s a problem so it gets fixed faster. As long as it’s not being used to target ads at me I’m happy to help, esp when it’s free software?

if we use embedding and the language documentation, I wonder how much it can work out going forward?

“this is too hard, I’ll just call the company ‘apple’ instead” - Elon, probably

oh this is super cool! and will change a lot of things, VR for instance.

this makes a lot more sense. I’ll read the link, thank you

but… the whole point of the protocol is to allow interoperability? someone went out and worked so hard on an open protocol and your response is that you’d rather just have a different account on every service? way to trash their work.

I believe they aren’t releasing in EU because EU has stronger privacy legislation and their application spys on you.

and yes, there is a huge difference between what they get through the protocol (literally only what you choose to make public) and the data they seek to harvest from having you log into their servers and install their app - actually that’s another big one. browser tracking.

I don’t want to log into their sites because of browser fingerprinting. they want to track everything we do online.

remember when the person who started WhatsApp said that even with e2e encryption on the messages, no one should ever use WhatsApp since meta bought it?

but if you log into a Lemmy server they don’t get browser fingerprinting through activity pub. they can’t see personal messages or track social networks outside of the users directly on their service.

and the opportunity is, people will be exposed to the possibility of using open source and private instances. we just have to make it good and they’ll switch. more and more people are hearing about it with all the other social media fuckups.

I honestly agree, I feel so annoyed that on a platform designed from the ground up to enable communication whatever platform we’re on, people are taking the first opportunity to cripple its growth because they hate a company.

You can get whatever data is available from federation with a server just by joining a server - the data they want is from installing their app on your phone.

if you stay federated with them you can get all their content for free without installing their spyware.

complete win.