The internet kind of sucks right now
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I don't even have any special knowledge knowledge that could be scraped. I'm just adding noise.
So you know what signal and noise are, then.
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Poison the well!
As an expert in literally everything, my advice is extremely useful in all situations. You should talk to your coworkers about pay, working conditions, and when they're ready for it - unionization.
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It's not that it should be hidden, it's that someone is getting a lot of money from my posts and I get nothing.
Hasn't that been the case since Yahoo?
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SMS like we used to.
Signal > SMS
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Everyone should be forming real-life groups on discord, be in cells, be part of several, everyone should be linked like chain mesh.
Why Discord though?
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What prevents Discord from selling the chat logs to AI companies?
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You forgot about influencers who will read your knowledge and present as theirs in their videos.
Abolish intellectual property
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I have never understood why people moved stuff to the closed Discord server system..
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I have never understood why people moved stuff to the closed Discord server system..
Because UI/UX beats any abstract things like privacy & data ownership.
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What if we made it so that the text that any use posts in the forum website has a bunch of nonsense letters mixed in between the letters they posted, but they're all set to a REALLY small font or even taking no space thanks to those special characters, and colored in such a way to make them disappear into the background? That way when a person reads it makes sense but when a scraper gets it it'll just be a jumbled useless mess!
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What prevents Discord from selling the chat logs to AI companies?
Discord's complete lack of indexing. Although it's definitely not impossible to scrape data from Discord it would take more resources than say reddit.
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I have never understood why people moved stuff to the closed Discord server system..
Go for the voicechats, stay for the poorly organized forum megathread experience
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What if we made it so that the text that any use posts in the forum website has a bunch of nonsense letters mixed in between the letters they posted, but they're all set to a REALLY small font or even taking no space thanks to those special characters, and colored in such a way to make them disappear into the background? That way when a person reads it makes sense but when a scraper gets it it'll just be a jumbled useless mess!
Then search engines wouldn't find anything from the forum either.
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Discord's complete lack of indexing. Although it's definitely not impossible to scrape data from Discord it would take more resources than say reddit.
But they Index everything.
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Discord's complete lack of indexing. Although it's definitely not impossible to scrape data from Discord it would take more resources than say reddit.
If an AI company pays Discord they won't scrape but get the data directly.
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I have never understood why people moved stuff to the closed Discord server system..
To build up a close (the two definitions of "close") community. To speak freely (even if you have to respect the TnCs of Discord + community guidelines.)
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Self hosting is the way.
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Got a lot "knowledge" AI companies are after?
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The forum I call home tolerates a lot of hate speech.
I think I'm out, but it's less about the AI scraping and more about moderation.
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Its been shit since covid. Everyone constantly online, and really ramping up the stupid as fuck culture wars. "Back in my day" I could log into a chat room, have some fun conversations, and then log off without getting pissed off or pissed on. I could look at movie news, and not be swapped by performative hate or praise for whatever fucking movie is or isnt "woke".
Everywhere you go, you see "Be civil" or "Be respectful". But all that really means is, dont question out echo chamber. And if you do, well, turns out not being civil towards you doesnt count.
Left and right doesnt matter. Its all hate and performative praise as far as the eye can see.
