/r/programming came back up two days ago and as far as I can tell everything relating to the blackout was wiped. I kinda expected it since spez was admin.
Another thing that surprised me was how much chatGPT bot spam there is (danm it is so so bad, wonder what the mods are doing over there… ah yes, spez).
I used to sort by hot so it was hidden away a bit for me before.
Anyways I hope Lemmy does not fall into the same pitfalls!
goes back into lurk mode
Yeah that’s also my worry. That Meta (is it already legally allowed to use that name anyway…?) will try to grab data and analyze it for free kind of (without the potential ad revenue, but well at least free data…). With AI it can likely easily pinpoint/target each user and create a profile or something, maybe even link it with people on their platforms I guess…
Anyway they could still just use the API I guess, they just can’t easily subscribe to the Activity streams via their official instance (but of course they could spin up an instance that just crawls and subscribes to every instance).
I’m really interested what their intention is exactly, but it’s for sure not good…