Do we own our posts? (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago by thepiggz@programming.dev to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Who owns what we post?

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[-] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 54 points 11 months ago

Nobody. It's a public forum, anyone can take what you said and use it as their own.

From technical side, instance admins, community moderators, and you have the ability to remove them.

[-] thepiggz@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago

Might we easily make it more clear that the poster or the server owns them outright?

Hypothetically, a corporation federates and wants to monetize my posts. Can they do this? I’m not personally fixated on ownership (which could easily be viewed as my systemic privilege), but the pathway out of this type of thought in general doesn’t seem to be yielding all power to already powerful growth-based corporations. I didn’t create the current systems, but I do acknowledge their existence.

[-] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Anywhere where you're a repeat customer is probably selling your data. Any service you repeatedly use could also sell your data. Unfortunately it's just a way of life these days.

Who says that no-one is sucking up all of the Lemmy data right now and selling it to some entity? There is no way of knowing and there is no way to combat it.

[-] thepiggz@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

I feel your frustration. Hang in there though. Perhaps there is a way to combat it.

[-] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

How would that even fundamentally make sense? Define "own". If you post the comment "lol" does that mean I shouldn't be allowed to post "lol" since you "own" it? How would simply posting something establish ownership? What if you had copied it from a different site?