Can someone provide clarity on data ownership ? Can we make it so the data can’t be sold, monetized or used in any detrimental way towards society via an ELA?
The lemmy.world admins have full control over all the instance’s data, including the accounts of everyone using the instance. They seem like nice people, but there’s no real way to enforce the conditions you’re proposing.
It is up to Ruud and Admin crew. If you want to own control, self host your instance, but read the terms of every provider as you’re likely still not in full control with cloud provider, DNS, and any other middle persons tapping your data at all times, even your VPN and ISP are likely mining you.
Dibs.
What country is lemmy.world hosted in?
Finland via Hetzner IIRC.
Honestly, if I was going to choose any country I would feel comfortable with hosting my data, it would be Finland or another Nordic country.
I get that Lemmy is federated and content hits other instances, but still.
Also like, how can this website survive? Server costs will grow but we’re all very against ads which is why we left Reddit basically. Is lemmy just going to rely on donations?
I think donations via something like Patreon, or subscriptions via an app are eventually totally reasonable for a Lemmy instance. I got enough utility out of Reddit that I would have been willing to pay a few bucks a month for an ad free app subscription. Reddit’s unreasonable, shortsighted management was the problem there. Once Lemmy starts to mature more and there is content worth paying for I’m ready to do my part to make sure it can continue without corporate involvement.
Wikipedia, NPR, OPs mom…all expensive institutions that survive on donations
Im not against ads per se, and ads aren’t why I left Reddit. Not saying I want ads here but I’m also a recurring contributor to mastodon.world which is where lemmy.world is being funded from.
I would love to see something like a blanket Creative Commons Non-commercial Attribution license applied across the instance.
I don’t think that would cause issues with federation, but I’m no expert.
