I just found out reddit sold everything we wrote to AI companies... and honestly I don't know how to feel
I just found out reddit sold everything we wrote to AI companies... and honestly I don't know how to feel
So I was reading about Reddit's API controversy from 2023 and fell down a rabbit hole.
Turns out every post, every comment, every opinion you've shared here - reddit licensed it to openai and google. No opt-out. No warning. Just. - done.
And that's just reddit. Meanwhile Google, Meta, and basically every major platform are quietly building a profile on you — your interests, your political leanings, your daily routine, your insecurities. All from things you said or clicked on "anonymously."
The wild part? We already knew this was happening. It's not new. Yet here we all are, still posting.
So I'm genuinely curious — why do you still use reddit (or big tech in general) knowing this?
Is it because:
- The alternatives (Lemmy- kbin- etc..) just aren't there yet?
- You've accepted it as the price of the internet
- You actually don't think it's that big a deal?
- Or you simply never thought about it until now?
Not judging anyone — I'm still here too. Just want to hear honest answers.
When a language dies, a piece of hunan culture dies with it. Letting a language die is allowing erosion of human culture. Forcing or encouraging a language to die (so everyone can use the best language that I understand) is colonialism.
Yep. Besides, in the case of Galician and Catalan (especially the former) they are endangered languages; there is nowhere where onmy Galician is the official languages, and bad policies are pushing it to the brink of extinction. Most Galician you hear today is heavily influenced by Spanish, so having spaces where the language is protected, in this context, online spaces, is critical to its salvation.
Apart from the "evil" thing, which is why I'm making this separate comment: why is it a bad thing if a language is not spoken anymore? As far as I understand, speaking languages is about understanding one another, and in that case, wouldn't it be much better if we only had one language? That way, everyone could understand each other. I don't care about the "colonialism" thing, for all I care that one language could be Esperanto. If no one speaks a language anymore, then it's not useful for communication anymore.
There's an argument to have about conservation of culture, which is a thing in itself. (Why do people want to preserve antiquities?) There must have been some awesome poems in Sanskrit that we'll never know.
Mostly apeaking, for me the simple fact of wanting other languages to die is a huge red flag of attempt at cultural erasure, like when the english tried to eradicate Scottish culture. Language erasure is a tool to marginalise those speaking it, and history shows that it never really end well...
But I still don't understand how that is evil, yes it's maybe unfortunate, but how are you choosing between two evils? You're choosing between something evil and idk, something unfortunate.