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> If I can run my own instance can they really promise that? what? it's Bluesky promising not to do a thing, they're not promising every other entity in the w
by bananapub 2y ago
> If I can run my own instance can they really promise that?
what? it's Bluesky promising not to do a thing, they're not promising every other entity in the world won't do a thing.
- righthand 2y agoRight so they aren’t offering any sort of actual value in that promise to the user, other than moral security.
- kevinh 2y agoYou generally give the company whose platform you're hosting on a license to use your work. That's not something that they'd have that groups scraping the data would not. If the tide turns on AI having to respect copyright, that could significantly change the significance of that promise. Will it? Probably not.
- daft_pink 2y agoi think people are a little bit unclear about what such a promise means or if it’s even of value for a decentralized system compared to the usefulness of such a promise for a traditional centralized social network.