Ive seen that pixelfed and peertube have the ability to add a licence to content. I think this would be great for everyone so we can get ahead of threads and have collective bargaining power when they inevitable put our content between ads.
Heres the pixelfed duscyssion on the issue: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/13 Here is mastadons discussion: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20079
Im not sure if lemmy has a discussion yet i may create one later if one doesnt already exist.
I don’t care if its meta or some indy dev my content and my data belong to me and i should have the right to licence it how i feel fit…
I find it so ironic that people come to the Fediverse, an explicitly open protocol, and then get super possessive about “their data” and demand all kinds of controls over how it’s used that even the big centralized walled gardens like Reddit don’t provide.
You’re posting publicly in a public forum that’s designed to spread your comments far and wide to systems all over the world. I don’t think you’re going to have much luck at enforcing those rights.
Just cos its open doesnt mean im giving it away for use in any purpose. I still own it im just allowing the rest if the fediverse to ses it and respond to it.
Sight is an explicitly open protocal anyone i meet can see my face doesnt mean they have the right to profit from the likeness of my face.
You’re free to feel how you want to feel, but it’s worth talking about how this might affect existing and future development for the fediverse
Large corporations have a knack for getting around (or straight up ignoring) restrictions that stop others. Just look at how they profit from existing licensed content, and pay a tiny fee when someone finally wins a legal case against them. I think the commenter above is also saying that it would suck if a change kills off smaller dev projects and makes it so only giant corporations can do it.
Not that this is the wrong idea, just that it’s worth thinking about. On top of ads, other areas licensing may help with are privacy and use in training data for LLMs
Im sure they will just totally ignore licencing but in the long term its going to give us a lot of collective bargaining power when it comes to corporations tryung to prifit from the fedivsere.
My ideal implementation would be each post has a licence decided by the poster and each instance has a default. In that case if u wanna post with a free for anyone to do anything go ahead its your choice.
The only privacy the fediverse provides is through anonymity i doubt licencing would effect that at all. But llm training it could force a lot more opensource into this world.