Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

Oct 01, 2026, 11:32 PM

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[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 86 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

Not 40, but also don't want my thoughts and comments to be an income stream for a for-profit organization, whether that be by selling and/or training an LLM using my data for profit or contributing to an inescapable network effect that can be increasingly monetized by various means.

The modern social media platform is not designed to foster positive interactions, but rather to maximize shareholder value.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 47 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

also don’t want my thoughts and comments to be an income stream for a for-profit organization

I mean, you're fooling yourself if you don't believe Lemmy has been scrapped by a thousand crawlers by now.

I'm more paranoid about how many accounts are bots than about some data aggregator getting my dumbshit hot takes as training data.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 14 points 12 hours ago

Equal access for all is still better than one company controlling access to my content for the purposes of monetization.

[–] solarspark@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 hours ago

I mean, you're fooling yourself if you don't believe Lemmy has been scrapped by a thousand crawlers by now.

That's why we're here. To fu k with the scrapers and poison the training 🙃

[–] CheesyFingers@piefed.social 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Dw, the corpos are using bots to scrape and categorize your thoughts and comments anyway.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 points 10 hours ago

They will be able to interact with a nearly identical fully formed person, at any point of development for them, who they can make and unmake at a whim, modify, and so on. While they leave the real people to just die.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.social -1 points 10 hours ago

don’t want my thoughts and comments to be an income stream for a for-profit organization

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The modern social media platform is not designed to foster positive interactions, but rather to maximize shareholder value.

This is so much more important than whatever elitism OOP implies.

I'm also not 40 btw.