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[Duscussion] Post licening to kneecap threads putting ads next to our content. (self.fediverse)
submitted 11 months ago by muntedcrocodile to c/fediverse
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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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[–] [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.