It’s true that Big Lemmy isn’t selling your data to LLMs. Here it gets given away to them for free because that’s the nature of federation. By now they’ve certainly stood up an instance so that they’re receiving the full firehose of ActivityPub in an easily digestible format (and they get to just ignore those pesky delete messages).
But bots posting AI slop is still only a nascent problem here. Most of your discussion is generally with humans.
It’s what you don’t see. Astroturfing, Nazis, selling your data to advertisers and LLMs. We made our own Reddit, with blackjack and hookers.
Note: farm-to-blackjack-table and free-range hookers. No big farma here.
It’s true that Big Lemmy isn’t selling your data to LLMs. Here it gets given away to them for free because that’s the nature of federation. By now they’ve certainly stood up an instance so that they’re receiving the full firehose of ActivityPub in an easily digestible format (and they get to just ignore those pesky delete messages).
But bots posting AI slop is still only a nascent problem here. Most of your discussion is generally with humans.
There’s extremists on Lemmy too, but they’re mostly on defederated instances like hexbear and lemmygrad or whatever it’s called now.