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A true fediverse that is free from data brokers (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by wargreymon2023@sopuli.xyz to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

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[-] wargreymon2023@sopuli.xyz 0 points 9 months ago

Releasing dumps the way you described would be a massive burden on admins, or even completely infeasible.

It adds work but it is actually very easy, the texts and images aren't that big. The burden is eased by more people engage in seeding(hosting) the data.

[-] Bezier@suppo.fi 5 points 9 months ago

Well, let's just say that I doubt you'll be able to sell this idea to instance admins.

However, you can become the change you wish to see yourself. You can start scraping today and create your own dumps that way; the apis are yet to be closed.

this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2024
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