Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

  • lightnegative@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I was thinking about this the other day. Because Lemmy instances keep defederating from each other, I don’t really experience Lemmy. I experience a fragment of Lemmy as determined by the admins of the instance I’m connected to.

    Even if I run my own instance, I guess there’s nothing stopping instances from defederating from me (or just refusing to federate to begin with because my instance is too small to bother with).

    Is there even a way to experience all of Lemmy, including spam and things some people don’t agree with?

    • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      i think it’s functionally impossible to know every comment on every post in every community on every instance. but you could probably get about 80% of it. i have some 60+ fediverse identities across various services and i found that mastodon is incredible at getting lemmy content: if you subscribe to a community, every comment will be pushed to your home feed. in reverse chronological order. and mod deletions don’t get federated to mastodon.