Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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A true fediverse that is free from data brokers (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Reddit sells its api for high and is about to go for an IPO, its economy bases entirely on the data made by the users/communities. It is the work of the public, get robbed by a small group of individuals. A living example of capitalism.
Fediverse isn't enough to secure the publicity and usage of public data. What if the host of Lemmy instance also releases the snapshots of all the posts and modlogs, everyday, in the form of bittorrent? Only by doing so, we are safe from the host erasing public knowledge and data brokers.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

the fediverse itself is broadcasting all the information publicly. there is no expectation of privacy.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It is 1% better, but it is irrelevant.

The instance can blacklist other instances, the data stored by the host doesn't have to be published. There is also no integrity check of what would be the public data.

The host can do anything it wants with the data, unless we scarpe as much data as we can and release it in p2p network.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

if youre that concerned, run your own instance and create this torrenting thing you believe needs to exist.

i doubt you'll get much traction