Shouldn’t be an option. All things should be open and be able to scrape. If every lemmy gets big it would be a good way to identify users manipulating votes or posts.

What for?

There’s nothing on lemmy to monitor. You guys see the vanilla users of reddit and thought r/pics was too spicy.

Sitting around waiting to repost a no kings comment isn’t a concern for anyone.

Lemmy is created to post about beans and moths. That’s what federation is about. If anyone even thought about rocking the bot with a post that wasn’t related to beans or moths then you could stand up another instance and get back to our bean moth funny good time.

Lemmy is the digital left without an unseen well funded invisible hand guiding us. At least not yet. You’d think this is the opportunity to find strategy to build digital spaces to fight back against the rich sizing digital assets. Build communities and discussions to reject corporate influence and push back against the growth of fascism. But no. This is not what federation was ever about. It’s about recreating the SFW vanilla reddit front page but worse with less people. Hahaha haha bean moths so fucking cute. Imagine whose beans are these, I don’t know. Did you see the post where they photo shopped a moth on a guy eating beans. Fucking wild.

There’s nothing to monitor here.

Nobody was suppose to worry about Karma. Voting was for the community to moderate itself. We should be moving towards less moderation not more

I still remember all the talk about the end of data scarcity in the early days. Lots of concern that we now have a new frontier that can replicate information endlessly but that they’ll try to lock it away behind paywalls and limit who can have what.

I was just thinking of communities that could act as discussions or KB posts.

I understand that some sites don’t want meta lawyers coming at them. They’re monolithic and have other infrastructure concerns that can be targeted. But lemmy solves some of those issues. Federation seems like it can revive some things that corporate owned internet has been trying to wipe clean.

Maybe the end goal of lemmy is to end up like reddit. A place to advertise and hawk products and entertainment. I really don’t know enough about it. But from what I see, I’m just wondering if it’s worth discussing.

Yes actually.

You nailed something that I’m actually concerned about. I heard this idea the other week and it makes sense to me.

Old heads saw the internet grow. We saw lots of different stages of development towards the corporate owned billboards that it is now. Younger people were raised by it so it’s all normalized to them.

There’s things older people see and go “that ain’t right” that younger people don’t. This begs the question, are there things older people should be preserving or bringing attention to that aint right or are am I just in my “I walked two miles uphill both ways” phase of life

What kicked this off was a desire to scrape Facebook groups to build a dataset. I just wanted to play around with different things to see patterns or sentiment analyses.

Seems like there was this shift or bifurcation online about a decade or so ago. Information was everywhere. Now it isn’t.

I’ve been interested in methods to scrape social media. The more measures they create to block scraping the more I want to scrape it.

I’m interested in getting datasets to play around and analyze. Personal project stuff and just to learn and upgrade myself while doing something I’m interested in.