movieCritical support for the Lemmy world peeps in their fight against pro-intellectual property nerds
gabe [he/him]yall, this dude tired signing up to my instance a few nights ago. yall wanna see why many communities have registration approvals? see below. warning for nsfw language
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Still laughing at the vast amount of people coming from reddit and expecting only chill people to be on lemmy. Like lemmy users are somehow immune to toxicity.
It’s less toxic overall but we (or mostly the moderators) will have to fight them all the time.
At least it will improve the moderation tools which is always a good thing.
When I realized it was that dude who tried signing up to my instance I lost my shit laughing, if he was screened prior it’s obvious he wouldn’t have gotten in. This is precisely what happens when you focus on growth over organically cultivating a healthy community.
I have no proof but I think lemmy.world be monetized at some point.
If that is true in any way whatsoever, that is a completely moronic long term goal. Lemmy devs themselves have encouraged instances who do such a thing to defederate. I don’t see how realistically advertising or monetization would be done not only without immense privacy concerns that would likely affect the rest of the fediverse but without major protests and mass defederation. The backlash against it would be immense, not just on lemmy but across the fediverse itself.
possibly a catSomeone is going to at some point. Whoever it is might do it behind-the-scenes if they are risk-averse.
Think of what the granular user data is worth on an instance that big.
Want to buy user data? If reddit tells you no that’s that, but in the fediverse you can go and ask the next largest instance if the first one says no. The game theory is a little more complex here in the fediverse.
When it does happen, I hope the backlash will be appropriately large. I don’t think any of the key stakeholders here want to see lemmy monetized in this way, through donations sure but not by selling the users’ attention and privacy to 3rd parties.
Those that even remotely consider scraping data on Mastodon consistently face intense harassment and criticism.
Those who talk about it do. I’m sure many already scrape without going around telling the world about it.
Can’t you just scrape everything without ever saying a word to tge admins though?
Right, that’s what I mean.
Or presumably you could even just run your own instance and federate to fetch info “legitimately.”
The lemmy.world admins are pretty much disgruntled power tripping redditors. They aren’t thinking that far ahead. They’re definitely going to go for the dumbest move they can possibly pull off and count on their reddit users to argue in favour of it as a “reasonable, sensible choice after all”.