Mastodon toot:

Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

Oct 01, 2026, 11:32 PM

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    402·
    8 hours ago

    also don’t want my thoughts and comments to be an income stream for a for-profit organization

    I mean, you’re fooling yourself if you don’t believe Lemmy has been scrapped by a thousand crawlers by now.

    I’m more paranoid about how many accounts are bots than about some data aggregator getting my dumbshit hot takes as training data.

    • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
      11·
      6 hours ago

      Equal access for all is still better than one company controlling access to my content for the purposes of monetization.

    • solarspark@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      I mean, you’re fooling yourself if you don’t believe Lemmy has been scrapped by a thousand crawlers by now.

      That’s why we’re here. To fu k with the scrapers and poison the training 🙃