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Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text (www.engadget.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I 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.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Even without 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.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Lemmy.world is a registered non-profit organization. https://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.

    I suppose I should mention for full disclosure that I'm part of the (unpaid) staff here representing the Lemmy.World Community Team.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    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. A not for profit is not a charity.

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