I’m on Lemmy due to this!
I literally use this platform just to run from bots and cooperate greed.
Social networks are getting stingy with their data, leaving third-party developers in the lurch
Submitted 9 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to technology@lemmy.world
http://techcrunch.com/2024/02/09/social-network-api-apps-twitter-reddit-threads-mastodon-bluesky/
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McDropout@lemmy.world 9 months ago
misk@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
I don’t think the Lemmy is well prepared to handle bots or more sophisticated spam, for now we’re just too small to target. I usually browse by new and see spam staying up for hours even in the biggest communities.
Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Just chiming in here: there are at the moment some problems with federation. I’m an admin on LW, and generally we remove spam pretty quickly but it currently doesn’t federate quickly. We are working on solutions that temporarily fix it till the lemmy devs themselves fix it.
UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 9 months ago
Be diligent with reporting, and consider switching instance if your admins aren’t really active.
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 9 months ago
Ste spm is bad but I can just ignore it, but last week there was an attack with CSAM which showed up while casually surfing new, that made me not want to open Lemmy anymore.
I think that is what needs to be fixed before we can taccle spam.
cybersandwich@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Lol, well it’s not immune to either. As soon as anyone thinks Lemmy has ROI, it will be targeted by bots, corporate greed, and scrapers.
But all of our posts are publicly available in the Internet and in my opinion should be fair game for web crawlers, archivists, or whoever wants to use it. That’s the free and open Internet.
What’s shitty is when companies like reddit decide it’s “their” data.
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 9 months ago
…corporate?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 months ago
Corporations cooperate greedily.
ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Long live Lemmy!
DigitalGemini@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Testify! 👏🏻👊🏻
athos77@kbin.social 9 months ago
Fuck spez.
FatTony@discuss.online 9 months ago
That’s Steve Huffman folks!
taanegl@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Does this mean the monetary value of personal data is falling? I’m thinking this may be some sort of price fixing.
huginn@feddit.it 9 months ago
It’s the opposite.
They’re hoarding more of it because they’re wanting to capitalize on it.
Sharing your capital for free is a bad business move.
ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub 9 months ago
I suspect it’s a similar story with AI
Before AI took off, it was necessary to make groundbreaking discoveries. Pretty much all the architectures and most if not all of the data for training were released open source
Now that AI is taking off, these companies don’t want to help their competition. So their data and algorithms are becoming more and more closed off
ExLisper@linux.community 9 months ago
It’s probably more like when Amazon gets into yet another business and kills the competition. Whatever those 3rd party devs are doing the social networks can do themselves and make more money.
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Data has always been valuable, even before Surveillance Calitalism. But now with the rise of AI, the owners of social platforms that were easily accessible are now making it harder to hoard the data because they realize they can use it for their own LLM training
Not to mention data’s various other uses like advertising/marketing, selling of it foreign governments/advesaries/law enforcement agencies, etc.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 9 months ago
We’re scanning the very last email! It surely has all the passwords!
Ohh fuck! Another fuckin cat picture zip file!
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 9 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
However, in May, Christian Selig, the developer of the popular iOS client Apollo, had a call with the company where he learned that the cost demanded by the platform was so high that his app would go out of business.
As he wrote in detail on his blog, he noted that Threads starting with ActivityPub integration doesn’t automatically mean that we’ll see a flourishing ecosystem of apps by default.
“Again though, the integration of Threads into this ecosystem doesn’t necessarily equate to a larger market — as Meta may not need to use many of the back-end services, and most likely will not initially allow their users to use alternative clients,” Coates said.
“On the other hand, Meta’s integration may cause a lot more interest in self-hosting and other companies and communities may join the larger Mastodon ecology and that would increase the opportunities and possibility for services and products of this kind,” he noted.
The Iconfactory’s principal developer Ged Maheux told TechCrunch that the company has learned to diversify its revenue across different apps after the bad experience of Twitterific’s shutdown.
Earlier this week, Maheux and Iconfactory began a new Kickstarter campaign for a new app called Tapestry, which will allow you to connect your social media accounts and RSS feeds through a chronological timeline.
The original article contains 2,203 words, the summary contains 216 words. Saved 90%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
SteefLem@lemmy.world 9 months ago
“Their data” HA.
NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Hey! It took years of hard work to develop the good will necessary to get into a position to take advantage of their data!
Empricorn@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Mark Zuckerberg: “Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard just me. I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS,”
“What? How’d you manage that one?” a friend asked.
“People just submitted it,” “I don’t know why They 'trust me. Dumb fucks.”
SteefLem@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Name address and so on i, well, understand if you buy something online to fill that in. But sns and id??? Thats all kinds of stupid. Why would you give thata willingly to fb? Its not a government entity or even a bank.
ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Unfortunately, when we sign up to their EULAs we “willingly” give everything up… So technically it ends up being legally theirs 🥺
Diotima@kbin.social 9 months ago
Not quite, but pretty close. You still hold copyrights in anything protected by copyright for example. They just have a perpetual license to use your work. We really ought to be working on laws to protect privacy and limit corp content piracy without explicitly clear opt-ins.