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 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.