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[–] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I've yet to hear a good argument for why it matters even if they did. I've made thousands of comments on Lemmy that are free for anyone to grab and do anything they want with. If I didn't want people to have access to them I wouldn't be posting on the first place.

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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If the AT protocol allows public access to content, they can’t create a proprietary training set. But the content is available for anyone who wants to add it to a public training set.

[–] wpb@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago

"we promise ;)"

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 20 points 2 days ago

Trust me bro, just keep shit posing on here, we won't change out "ToS"

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Why is this taking off but not Mastadon?

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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Why not? Are my posts not good enough for you Mr Bluesky?

[–] bloup@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Better BlueSky than Twitter, but I hope everyone understands by now that there’s literally no reason to take a business’s word for anything unless they somehow have legally obligated themselves to doing that thing forever. Otherwise you can only trust them to keep doing it for as long as it’s worth it from an economic perspective. I’m not saying that it can’t ever happen that a business acts out of pure goodwill, but only a fool would count on it.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 7 points 2 days ago

But did they pinky promise?

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Lol okay. Sounds good, bro.

[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago
[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago

"Don't be evil" ...

... for now

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I don't get it. They were rich beyond most people's wildest dreams. Why did they jump aboard the enshitification bandwagon?

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Money is power, and people with money like to habe power.

If someone else is pulling in more money, you're going to find yourself with less power.

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These were a couple of PhD geeks who hit it big, it's certainly not inevitable that intelligent people get absorbed with money, see the creator of VLC for example. It's just sad that these guys could have been rich AND kept the internet 'pure' and research focused. But instead commerce has crept in and taken a shit on what was once a clean simple brilliant search service.

[–] voracread@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What happened with VLC? This is the first time I am hearing it.

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[–] original_reader@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days ago

They want to be rich beyond EVERYONE'S wildest dreams.

Why else?

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Public trading... it's capitalism. By law you have to try and extort every penny.

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Now that I think about it I'm not sure why they had to accept investor money at all. I wonder if it would have turned out differently if they had remained 100% privately owned?

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

Because growth... Without the R&D money, Microsoft or Yahoo, or someone else would have figured out how to do what they do faster/better, waited until google was a forgotten name and then enshittified.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When you make a lot of money, the number you see in your account starts to become part of your identity because it differentiates you between you and the people you see every day. The same way if I had blue curly hair, that would become a defining factor of where I “differ” from the general public. The numbers in one’s account becomes an obsession-point.

People get obsessed with the number and how much bigger they can make it. It’s like hoarding. No amount will ever be enough. And once you’re able to buy anything, the actual value of that money becomes meaningless. So even more drive to bring the number up because that’s the only novelty you are getting.

That and power.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

When you make a lot of money, the number you see in your account starts to become part of your identity because it differentiates you between you and the people you see every day.

"Tres Comas is for winners." (A wonderful line delivery by the huge asshole venture fund bro in Silicon Valley, that illustrates your point)

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago
[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

... for now

[–] residentmarchant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

This seems like a clever way of saying they don't have an AI team or plans so they have no use for the data.

Brilliant!

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago
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