It’s possible that the enforcement of a rate limit isn’t because of AI scraping, but rather because they failed to migrate before the June 30th deadline.

  • @[email protected]English
    7•1 year ago

    Not to sound paranoid, but it’s kind of worrying.

    In recent years, these sites have been used to pass information quickly during crisis. This can be anything like natural disaster, or uprising and protests.

    These big aggregators being incompetently, mismanaged and taken down from public use at the same time, makes me wonder if it’s an attempt to quash communication that’s not coming from a government or mega-corp.

    The revolution will not be televised… by the people.

    • @[email protected]English
      0•1 year ago

      Yeahhhh, I’ve been getting less news information since moving to Lemmy. The communities are here, but they have some growing to do.

      And then there’s the issue of them growing into the correct servers. For example, my first day here I caught a mod on lemmy.ml banning a user for posting an Axios article about China on World News because “Orientalism”. The article was a pretty common western take on the Xi Xinping succession plan. Really nothing uniquely anti-China. That especially raises eyebrows given the many conversations had about Lemmy’s communist roots from its devs.

      Which isn’t to say Lemmy as a whole is tainted - just the dev community, lemmy.ml. So I ethically feel the need to avoid their World News community and only use lemmy.world’s World News community, but that places me into an even smaller and more split community, giving me even less information. All I can think is that I need to be the change I want to see and intentionally post to/comment on the lemmy.world World News community.