Link: https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/

When you post on reddit, instagram etc. you're giving the company your valuable data. (And it often is valuable, you put your thoughts into it and all that). Consider if you take 15 minutes to create value content, you'd get paid $5 or sth if you were doing it commercially. Now all that value is donated to big tech companies. (that's the only reason why they have value at all.)

So what's the problem with that? The problem is that reddit and others can instantaneously put your years-long effort behind a paywall. I'm not joking. Look at these:

when i want to see content on reddit (for research) or instagram (for local community) they don't allow me to see the data that users have contributed. Reddit claims that it blocks VPNs for "security reasons", meanwhile i'm using VPNs in browser's incognito mode to not be tracked. Instagram wants you to sign in sothat they amass more users and can take leverage of the network effect even more.

I can understand restricting who can post to limit bot activity, but reading must always be possible. After all, it's our data. That's exactly what happens when you give your data to big companies to "communicate with other people": your data becomes a source of income for them, at our expense.

We’ve got mods doing the same shit here on Lemmy. Easy enough to ban users and keep all of their contributions regardless of what the user wants.

If you post on any social media, consider it no longer yours at all.

If you put it anywhere on the Internet for free, it’s not really yours anymore.

Yeah, but the difference is that Lemmy mods and admins pretend like this site is better about treating their users than others.

Oh Lemmy mods and admins are absolute trash. Far worse than Reddit. Sadly.

its highly demoralizing that AI is(and has to be) trained on reddit discussion.
but i know that reddit sucks.
the people are toxic.
the mods are toxic.
in some cases, i can verify from human experience that all 72 commenters are totally ape-shit wrong. sometimes, like 0-2% of the answers are remotely near correct(or less harmful).
good luck AI curators. i hope yall screen VERY carefully