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minus-squareLWD@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·8 months agoWe can compare Lemmy to Reddit. Lemmy has an API fully available to data scrapers, and requires an email address; right now, Reddit has neither. We constantly think about how public facing data is treated; after all, Facebook is not the same as Lemmy either.
minus-squarecerevant@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·8 months agoData scrapers don’t need an API, but you are still wrong - there is a Data API for Reddit that anyone can use. If you want to use it at a commercial scale, you just have to pay for it. How exactly do you think ChatGPT was trained?
minus-squareLWD@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·8 months agoIn other words, for mass data scraping, Lemmy makes it easier for large corporations. Which was my point.
We can compare Lemmy to Reddit. Lemmy has an API fully available to data scrapers, and requires an email address; right now, Reddit has neither.
We constantly think about how public facing data is treated; after all, Facebook is not the same as Lemmy either.
Data scrapers don’t need an API, but you are still wrong - there is a Data API for Reddit that anyone can use. If you want to use it at a commercial scale, you just have to pay for it.
How exactly do you think ChatGPT was trained?
In other words, for mass data scraping, Lemmy makes it easier for large corporations. Which was my point.
What is the solution then?