Ive seen that pixelfed and peertube have the ability to add a licence to content. I think this would be great for everyone so we can get ahead of threads and have collective bargaining power when they inevitable put our content between ads.

Heres the pixelfed duscyssion on the issue: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/13 Here is mastadons discussion: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20079

Im not sure if lemmy has a discussion yet i may create one later if one doesnt already exist.

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[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 0 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I think we should just create content for our own joyous reasons and know that people who monetize other people’s content are empty vessels who will never experience God’s grace.

[–] AdamEatsAss 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can't wait on "god" to solve your problems. Licensing should be handled instance wide to prevent co.panies from freely stealing content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

i dont have a problem with licensing on my instance, so this solves for a problem i do not have.

my instance publicly federates, so i dont have an expectation that the federating instances wont use the federated content for whatever the fuck they want

stealing federated content? thats the dumbest thing ive heard today.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 3 points 11 months ago

I have no idea if I should add a /s flag here but really, everyone try having fun for fun’s sake. I’m basically an atheist so I was joking when I said “God’s grace” but you can still do things just for fun or to create a little spark of inspiration in the world.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

im not sure why we have to treat threads differently than every other instance that is also using the content for whatever.

people are literally just so upset that 'meta' is even involved, they want to block them at all costs out of nothing more than spite. that their content '0h noooes my memes are next to ads!' is federated and shown on remote sites, and that site happens to be threads, freaks them the fuck out.

but there isnt any real reason to be doin all this. its pure corporate hatred. i just wish they would admit that instead of pretending they have an actual, technical reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The problem is that they are thousands times bigger than us. All our voices will be drowned out, in what we all know, is an ad-driven post contest.

We can whine and cry but their predatory algorithms will just chew on our content and spit it back in, filled with ads, misinformation et al.

That's why we dont want to federate with threads/facebook.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that they are thousands times bigger than us. All our voices will be drowned out, in what we all know, is an ad-driven post contest.

We can whine and cry but their predatory algorithms will just chew on our content and spit it back in, filled with ads, misinformation et al.

That's why we dont want to federate with threads/facebook.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

there are no ads on my site, so not sure why you keep bringing ads up.

that threads will overwhelm any instance would be about that instance's content as AP is largely user-driven processing. plausible, but definitely not a reason to "fucking block threads at all costs blahargghgghhhh!". you almost have a reason here in resource consumption. almost, but not really. we dont know what their implementation will look like of the protocol.

i was concerned about bots (only due to resource usage), but bot management is well underway in many dev channels

it sounds like youre all just afraid to moderate your own servers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I didn't say you're having ads on your site, you seems confused about how large sites like facebook operates, they can push narratives (they do) and fake information etc.

Also what's it about me "being afraid", do you have no valid arguments?

I sure wonder why people are so up in arms defending Facebook, drinking their boot juice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Can I have some of what you're smoking?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dunno where have you been the last year, or the last 55, but those who "never experience God's grace" still experience all the graces of capitalism and techno-feudalism, which is what currently matters.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 1 points 10 months ago

I was joking about the God’s grace thing. I’m not religious.

I just meant if you make a joke and someone steals it, who cares? There’s always low-life bozos who steal content and repost it with “Who did this, fam? 😭😭😭” If you want to monetize your content, do what I do and dress as a waifu and play Doki Doki Panic for 14 hours a day on Twitch. It ain’t much but it’s honest work. (Except for the Waifu costume.)