It seems there is a big bet on the value of “human to human” interactions on Reddit. Certainly that makes federated communities easy treasure to pirate? Does anything stop bots from web scraping/data-mining everything we say? I often think about contributing to PeerTube instead of Google YouTube but I feel like my content would be scraped by even more nefarious services quite quickly. Edit: Thanks for the feedback. Makes sense. Double edged sword of the internet. Still makes me hesitate to contribute.

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    3 hours ago

    Nope. Someone can easily use the APIs to datamine. Although honestly, if I’m going to be scraped for AI, I’d rather my content to be free rather than whoever slipped zuck enough buck