That seems like a plus to them.

I’ve just asked. There is a FOSS but not federated version.

But it is largely human-curated and indexed. That’s great for training AI, like Reddit.

We just added it as the old frontend was getting hammered by bots - it helped a lot.

There are lists of bots that instance Admins can block for a range of reasons.

Anything online can be scraped but big firms might run into regulatory trouble if they are caught randomly scraping sites without consent. At the moment, the big social media apps have a tonne of content to train on in tightly controlled conditions, so they don’t really need to go into the wild, yet. However, we need to be vigilant, block them and make a fuss if we catch them at it.

That’s the bit that made me laugh: “nothing to see here, we’ve been doing this for a while. What, you didn’t know? Not our fault you are unobservant.”

As far as I can tell this is a desktop plugin. On mobile it only brings across the plain text.

I needed it to save as markdown from my phone.

I use Obsidian with Zettel Notes on my phone to access and edit the MD files in Obsidian, as it is much faster for dashing off a quick note. ZN also has tools that allow you to save a web page or selection as MD which is very handy indeed.

Thanks, didn’t realise some were unlimited. I’ve only just moved to peertube.wtf and I’ll stay there for now. Any sign of pixelfed.wtf?

I’ll see how Tumblr federation goes as I do fancy trying to find ways to take advantage of their storage capacity. However, well see…

Now that is Interesting.

I had some thoughts about getting public domain short films into the Fediverse but you’d rapidly exhaust the allowance on most instances. However, this might just be the ticket. Time to brush off my Tumblr password…

Maybe PeerTube can already do that, haven’t played with it enough to know.

You’d think Peertube would be able to.