Dropsitenews published a list of websites Facebook uses to train its AI on. Multiple Lemmy instances are on the list as noticed by user BlueAEther
Hexbear is on there too. Also Facebook is very interested in people uploading their massive dongs to lemmynsfw.
Full article here.
Link to the full leaked list download: Meta leaked list pdf
Yeah, you really do need to brush up on the law here.
Copyright has nothing to do with reading works visible in public. If I put up a billboard or a poster that’s visible in a public space I can’t demand a license fee from any passer-by who glances over and reads it. That’s what you’re doing when you’re posting comments on the Fediverse, you’re publishing them for the world to see.
Did you think you needed permission to sue someone?
You’re not on a physical billboard or a poster. You are on the internet still reading my copyrighted content on my instances without direct approval from me to fetch my copyrighted content. You already expressed you will not comply with my authorization to read my content on my instance without my direct licensing agreement.
Brush up on consulting a lawyer b4 you faux pas further.
Actually, I’m reading it on my instance, at fedia.io.
You’re on ani.social. When you post a comment your ani.social instance sends a copy of that comment to the instance at programming.dev, which is where the community privacy@programming.dev is hosted. The programming.dev instance has a list of other instances that have users with subscriptions to privacy@programming.dev, and it automatically forwards a copy of that comment to all the subscribed instances. That includes fedia.io, since I am on that instance and I’m subscribed to privacy@programming.dev. So when I log in to fedia.io it has a copy of your comment already stored locally for me to see. This all happens automatically when you post your comment, you initiated that chain of actions yourself.
Maybe before you brush up on the law you should brush up on how the Fediverse operates.
Now get a lawyer to brush you up on when programming.dev/c/privacy ask my direct permission to acquire my copyrighted content on ani.social, and why you’re allowed to copy programming.dev’s illicit copy on fedia.io, without transitive permission.
Just sue me already, okay? It’ll be less hassle than continuing to try to explain this to you.