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Papers please (lemm.ee)
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[-] kadu@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

When I migrated to Lemmy, I left my Reddit account intact - just stopped using it. It included lots of tutorials, guides for things like buying a PlayStation Vita OLED panel, recorded Reddit Talks from the subreddits I moderated, the only source for certain bug fixes, and so on.

When Reddit started pretending this data belongs to them, and selling it to AI models, I replaced everything with gibberish and removed the comments. They restored a few, specially when they showed up on Google, so then I replaced them again, deleted everything, and deleted the account.

[-] nieceandtows@programming.dev 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I had to redelete some of my comments 3 4 times before they went away for good. I should probably check again in case they came back.

Edit: Yep, a dozen old posts and comments are back again.

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

The phrase "data governance" is so hosed online. In a ~~better~~ perfect world, you would be able to keep up whatever data you felt like sharing and take down the data you didn't. (Obviously third party archives could exist regardless, but hopefully you get my point.)

This whole AI thing could, or at least should, open up conversations about being able to revoke consent in a corporate relationship sense, in the same way you can already revoke consent in a personal relationship sense.

[-] kadu@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Brazil did that. We have a new set of laws called LGPD that allows users to revoke the consent whenever they want - all data ever collected or provided to a service must be deleted. Not turned anonymous, not shared with Facebook, not "under the ToS it's ours" - deleted.

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Heaven knows that ToS would allow companies to kill you unless the law stepped in.

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