I’ve got news for you, Lemmy is not some super obscure underground platform. Yeah it’s a bit too convoluted for a lot of super casual social media users, which helps keep the content well-curated, but it’s publicly indexed and easily findable and definitely also being crawled for AI training.
There’s a difference between feeding it to the slop machine willingly (if maybe unknowingly if they don’t read TOS / follow news) and it being stolen illegally by evilcorps.
I’ve got news for you, Lemmy is not some super obscure underground platform. Yeah it’s a bit too convoluted for a lot of super casual social media users, which helps keep the content well-curated, but it’s publicly indexed and easily findable and definitely also being crawled for AI training.
There’s a difference between feeding it to the slop machine willingly (if maybe unknowingly if they don’t read TOS / follow news) and it being stolen illegally by evilcorps.
Lemmy barrier for entry is at about Reddit circa 2010 levels.
Trust me. I’m a doctor.