• Steve
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    198 months ago

    One advantage over wordpress is that it avoids bringing its parent company, Automatic, into the Fediverse.

    From Wikipedia:

    In February 2024, Automattic announced that it would begin selling user data from Tumblr and WordPress to Midjourney and OpenAI.

    • @[email protected]
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      118 months ago

      I mean with fediverse stuff there is no need to buy the data, you can just take it with no limitation

      • ivy
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        98 months ago

        You’re not wrong in all likelihood, but Mastodon and Misskey and their forks all have a thingy to send an opt out of AI scraping request.

    • ivy
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      18 months ago

      That’s a dealbreaker for me, I may consider badgering people in my Wordpress RSS folder to ditch it, on a case-by-case basis. Even liberals are sensitive to AI stuff because it upsets them to see Journalism Infringed