Lol

I’ve seen a few people doing it, but I (and literally any companies scraping instances for content) just lol and move on.

Oh oops, you haven’t pasted some cool copyleft licence below your words on this niche thread on a niche social media network so looks like I might remix and reuse your content without attribution… Unlucky

It’s not thriving. The devs are prickly arseholes, which is anathema to building a cooperative, volunteer-driven dev community and the tone of many mainstream communities is obnoxiously set by tankies amd their alts.

Honestly the Lemmy main devs just aren’t that great amd their hardline ideology pushes away plenty of potential help.