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My instance doesn't sell what I write to train AI.
Of course, the AI sumbitches probably scrape Lemmy for content too like they scrape everything for content. But at least Lemmy doesn't give them my content on a platter, nicely packaged up and ready to exploit and monetize. They have to do the scraping.
Nobody needs your instance to sell anything. The AI companies can access the data for free, just like the rest of us do through the web.
Some instances like solarpunk sit behind anubis which makes each request from scrapers cost exponentially more than usual. Its not much but at least people on lemmy have the mind to try and strike back, on reddit they take it laying down.
and other instances that federate with solarpunk have almost the same data and are easier to scrape
Eh, if they run their own ActivityPub server they can probably extract everything in a neat format.
Yeah but they have to set it up. It's not sold to them ready to exploit - and crucially, Spez doesn't get to make any money off my back.
Reddit's culture is extremely toxic. Like, I actually left Reddit before Lemmy existed for that reason.
It's small enough that you can know people on your instance. And posts get engagement for way longer.
Also separate up and down vote numbers is nice.
Community sizes are smaller but the larger ones are large enough to sustain conversations
No ads and no corporate censorship.
I don't yet-- found my way here after getting banned.
Welcome :)
I feel more free to post my controversial opinions: downvotes don't really count nor have an effect on my account
lemmy is much smaller so far and I like the communities. I also don't feel like i'm being psyop'd by a bunch of bots in the larger communities like on reddit.
lemmy doesn't let the idf to moderate their communities and you can say things that run contrary to mainstream narratives.
Website format is much nicer. I like that you can post links knowing you wont get deranked or blackholed by a random mod. Modlog is also a nice feature.
The modlog is excellent. In fact, I've seen it used not just to keep mods accountable (or at least prove to the community that they're abusive), but also to refute troublemakers who claim they were banned from an instance for no reason or for ideological reasons, when the modlog shows them making clearly bigoted and inflammatory posts.
I enjoy not having corporate censorship deciding what I can and can't see or say; not that I comment or post that much.
I don't yet, but it's getting closer.
One reason is on me. I should choose a different instance because mine is the other side of the world from me! Different vibe. I probably haven't moved because I enjoy experiencing local views which oppose and align with my own. Conversely, In the community context, I follow "fuck_ai" and some of the pro-AI communities because it's important to me to see both sides of this revolution develop.
The second is that quite a few of the Reddit communities have limited Lemmy presence with significant momentum. That will hopefully change with time and other platforms willing.
On the flip side, I've found that there are many communities which have momentum which I joined on Lemmy for fun that I haven't investigated as to whether they exist in Reddit. My interests are eclectic and transient sometimes. Perhaps my sense of wonder will wilt one day (that alliteration sounded better in my head; damn!).
i like piefed because it's not owned by a publicly traded company with massive ai deals, there's fewer terfs, and shonky > snoo
Reddit is intolerant against atheists. You can't speak out againist the pain, suffering, hate, murder, slavery, and genocide from world religions without people in those religions reporting you for hate speech.
Bluesky is just as intolerant against atheists.
Religions and the religious make up stealth blasphemy laws, when they can't directly implement them. They don't want people pointing out how their religious hate hurts everyone, it makes them look bad.
Somehow, Lemmy is the best choice for speaking out against these hateful religions, and the hateful people that support them.
Not so sure that would be very different here
It seems however that Lemmy is pretty anti religion
the difference is that there isn't just one instance of Lemmy that bans you from the entirety of Lemmy. Antisemites are free to make their own instances as are israelites or communists.
Sure but some instances like to defederate, so you get cut off from the rest
most federate on a blocklist not an allowlist
Defederate auto corrected to federate
Fixed it
Lemmy over what?