Dopo #substack anche #reddit monetizza la sua kwnoledge base, creata attraverso i contributi spontanei dei frequentatori della piattaforma.
Sul punto non ho un'opinione forte: una comunità riceve ospitalità gratuita, ma quel gratis per altri ha un costo e il corrispettivo, in questo caso, èciò ciascuno ha scritto e che, una volta pubblicato, ha smesso di appartenergli.
Le regole erano sempre state chiare? E allora inutile lamentarsene ora #ownyourdata#ownyourweb https://www.ilpost.it/2024/05/17/reddit-accordo-openai/
I've recently migrated to this personal / single-user #Mastodon instance and finally got around to writing about that "journey”, explaining how and why I did it.
A few months ago, I persuaded a client to abandon an external cloud system and use Nextcloud on their own server instead. Powered by FreeBSD and ZFS, it has already demonstrated its strengths on a couple of occasions (such as in the case of a snapshot rollback). This morning, they expressed the desire to abandon the various WhatsApp groups they use for coordination and to use a solution "all on their servers." I was inspired and quickly installed both an ejabberd and a Matrix server (Synapse) - which they will probably prefer, according to the latest news they sent me - on two FreeBSD jails.
Today, we have the awareness and experience of what it means to give our data to large companies, completely losing control over it. We have the tools, so why not use them?
And I'm really happy when someone like them, thanks to their willingness to try "new" solutions, realizes the alternatives to the colorful, advertised, warmly recommended (by salespeople) "proprietary" solutions.
A client of my client (for whom I manage servers) ran a significant e-commerce business on #Magento for many years. They always used Magento OpenSource and saw substantial growth, evolving from a small online store to a giant, making the physical store secondary compared to their online volumes. They were happy, satisfied, and still growing. Then a salesperson showed them #Shopify, and they were persuaded to switch. I tried to explain that they would lose direct control of their e-commerce and data management (as the database would no longer be theirs but Shopify's), and complete control over their business and related costs. If Shopify doubles its prices tomorrow, they can't do anything but pay double. Despite this, the salesperson was convincing: my client will still manage the business, but they will abandon their efficient Magento servers for Shopify. Nothing against Shopify, but I see this as a defeat and a regression.
Unfortunately, people still fail to understand that data should be owned and free, not tied to proprietary platforms of others.
Annoyed that my favorite streaming music library, Pandora, does not offer any type of data export. All my likes and dislikes are held behind an API that is not accessible to developers.
Ended up creating this script to scrape my thumbs up, at least. Those show up on a web page. Thumbs down do not...
I'm sad because I really enjoy this service and the recommendation engine is solid.
It's kind of mind boggling that there are millionaire owned social media sites incorporating algorithms designed to keep us at each other's throats for their profit and amusement, and people are on them willingly.