if they run a mastodon instance, you’d be federating with them just as much.
are you sure these comments are somehow protected by copyright and they can’t use them? when I post publicly like this I have no expectation of control over use.I’d be very surprised if I could somehow sue a company using this comment to train AIs.
I’d also be surprised if that status changed somehow if the server was then connected to threads?
they can already download what people are sharing. that’s not what this is about.
if they want to train AIs on your data they can scrap it from the regular feed without any integration. If they needed federation to do it they could just set up a mastodon instance to grab the data - but they don’t.
the whole point of federation is networks being able to connect to each other. it will hopefully be a matter of course in the future.
what features do you miss?
it says no posts on page one, maybe it could load page two automatically?
it would be good to have some kind of linking.
my feed is usually ten copies of the same thing posted to similar communities on different servers
I can totally see myself setting up an instance as a fun weekend project, letting people use it, then coming back a month later and finding a nazi hellhole. when you’re doing something for fun/free it’s easy to not take the boring and time consuming parts seriously.
I’m not sure it’s possible to reasonably prevent, reddit had issues throughout its life because of it. I think they implemented measures but they were regularly bypassed. with federation it’s probably impossible. I’m not sure how much it matters for most threads but it might be an unfortunate fact of life
I can’t find anything like what you’re describing - my instance has a legal notice which is just a disclaimer saying they can’t be held liable, lemmy.world has a fair use and terms of service which are 404s and their privacy policy just says they won’t sell your data (but might use it for internal research) - can you tell me what you mean?