Instead you’re posting to the Fediverse, which is even more open for use by third parties.
Yea, but it’ll be open forever, nobody can turn off an app overnight and profit from it.
Right. But my point is that they can profit from it. The issue lots of folks seem to be having is “how dare Reddit make money using something I did!”, and that issue is even worse for the Fediverse since lots of companies can be doing it.
And what value is a commodity that is available to everyone?
I don’t disagree with your point but I’m sure it couldn’t be sold for as much as when it’s a limited resource.
Its obscure enough that I don’t think it’s being sought out by AI companies. The nature of federated instances should make it a bit more challenging to pull a complete data set too
