What makes you so sure that the person hosting your instance isn’t monetizing it or trying to find a way to monetize it in the background?
Maybe they’re selling all these posts and DMs to OpenAI?
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Serinus@lemmy.world 5 hours agoI haven’t paid for Lemmy yet. Well, other than volunteer time.
I guess if we want something where we’re not the product, we have to build it ourselves.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
WarMarshalEmu@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
They don’t need to sell access… It’s free. Assume anything you post here is getting sniffed up by everyone.
Serinus@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Lemmy.world is a registered non-profit organization. fedihosting.foundation/about-us/
It’s easy enough to use the API to scrape the site and use all the posts and DMs for free. It’d be odd for OpenAI to pay for it.
Please do recognize that anything you post publicly IS public, whether that’s Facebook or here. The lack of an API isn’t going to stop places from scraping your data off of Facebook or Reddit either.
Your DMs here are explicitly public. That’s part of the federation between servers. If you want truly private DMs, there are options for that.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Not that I DMd people, but I don’t think I knew that, so that’s good to know.
But also don’t mistake a not for profit as not being able to do something to aquire money to help pay for itself or the salaries of it’s people. They could absolutely be looking for ways to monetize this to a certain extent.
Serinus@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Image of private messaging within Lemmy showing that the messages are not secure
I’d recommend Signal for truly private messaging. I’ve heard things about Matrix, and the warning mentions Element.io, nether of which I’m personally familiar with.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Even with any potential monetization by anyone… you kind of are? You are part of the community here, and that’s what people come here for. Lemmy’s community is the product it offers, and you are a piece of it.
Serinus@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I wish more people on Reddit and Twitter would recognize that and use more discretion with who they’re creating a product for.