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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.
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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.
its already public information that can be scraped with a custom instance, no torrent needed. not really sure what your concern is here
By the host, that host could be Spez
Data is more valuable than ever, bc it can be used to train AI
the fediverse itself is broadcasting all the information publicly. there is no expectation of privacy.
It is 1% better, but it is irrelevant.
The instance can blacklist other instances, the data stored by the host doesn’t have to be published. There is also no integrity check of what would be the public data.
The host can do anything it wants with the data, unless we scarpe as much data as we can and release it in p2p network.
if youre that concerned, run your own instance and create this torrenting thing you believe needs to exist.
i doubt you’ll get much traction
Good. Let the data flow freely