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Not like, casual "Hi, how are you?" but seriously, how are you? Are you sleeping okay, is everything in your personal life going all right? And if not, can Internet strangers do anything to help?

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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

can Internet strangers do anything to help?

Thank you for asking, sincerely, but if Internet strangers tear into me for just having my comments have licensing footer text, there's no way I'm going to start stating any of my real issues that I'm dealing with, for them to judge.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

real issues

Really not trying to be rude, but it's like going out dressed up like a clown, and then wondering why no one takes you seriously.

The person dressed as a clown could still have cancer, but people aren't gonna ask about your health because you're dressed like a clown. Perception sets expectations.

To a lot of us, the licensing text is silly and superfluous, sorry. The courts the world over prioritize corporations over individuals and if you try to sue an AI company for scraping your comments... no offense but you'll probably lose unless you're a secret billionaire. That's why it's silly and superfluous, because the likelihood of you actually being able to protect them as intellectual property is near zero.

You literally put it in every comment, and thus, people look at you like you're dressed like a clown.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You're defeatist attitude, and being so readily willing to give up your rights and protections, is disturbing to see.

Metaphorically speaking, you don't have to suck corporate penis automatically. It's okay to push back, even if you fail, at least you can look at yourself in the mirror the next morning.

Believe more in yourself, and of those other citizens around you. Don't give in to the despair.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

It's not a defeatist attitude, it's that we have fundamentally different views on copyright and intellectual property rights.

I didn't want to get into that part because why argue when we're clearly on different pages, but since you want to call it defeatist and telling me I'm sucking corporate dick instead of wondering why I feel differently, I guess I'll give it a go.

Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

-Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle, 1968

I was influenced in my thought on this kind of stuff by people like Debord and Mark Hosler from Negativland.

To mangle a quote from Hosler from a video I haven't been able to find online in almost 20 years:

"If you want to have control over your art: Keep it to yourself. Keep it in your home. Don't show it to people."

As Dawkins theorized with memetics, when an idea is accepted into a new mind, the idea propagates and changes as it moves between people. Once that idea has been ingested by someone else's mind, you can't take it out of their mind again. They are already generating new ideas based on the meme of your art, thought, ideas. Copying each other is literally just how human communication works, and all this work to lay claim over it is at the very best superfluous and at the very worst a gross instinct of domination and control as opposed to sharing.

Creative Commons doesn't even offer the license that Negativland helped develop anymore.

Am I giving up my rights or am I living in the actual real world of how real human communication actually works? If I wanted control over these ideas, I wouldn't bother sharing them.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

So the TL;DR of your reply is, that it's okay to plagerise, that Humanity needs Corporations to do so to thrive. Gotcha.

For the record, and to repeat myself again, my license allows open-source/nonprofit usage of my comments by Humanity to train their LLMs.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the purposeful misreading and at no point making an attempt to engage with a different set of ideas. We're done here and I will be shitting on you and your stupid fucking license vociferously from here on out because you're an arrogant egotistical asshole.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for the purposeful misreading and at no point making an attempt to engage with a different set of ideas.

Hard disagree. And I stand by what I've said.

We’re done here and I will be shitting on you and your stupid fucking license vociferously from here on out because you’re an arrogant egotistical asshole.

It would probably be easier (and more mature) to just use the block functionality, but you do you, I guess. 🤷‍♂️

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You can hard disagree all you want, you literally dismissed the ideas without even considering them, but sure, you do you too, buddy.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

you literally dismissed the ideas without even considering them

Thats not true. I stand by what I've said.

At this point we've derailed the original purpose of this post enough, maybe we both just move on. It's obvious we won't agree on the matter.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

The only person derailing at this point is the person who refuses to engage with other ideas and just repeats "I stand by what I said."

You obviously did not make any attempt to understand Debord's quote at all if all you took from it is "plagiarism is okay." Maybe pick up a fucking book sometime, dude.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

The only person derailing at this point is the person who refuses to engage with other ideas and just repeats “I stand by what I said.”

I'm telling you straight to your (virtual) face, that I read and processed what you opined on, as well as the quotes you included.

I mean no insult to you, but I definately disagree with you on the interpretation of the quotes you included.

And thats ok, well all see things from our own perspectives.

You obviously did not make any attempt to understand Debord’s quote at all if all you took from it is “plagiarism is okay.”

Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

-Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle, 1968

That looks like a justification to allow plagiarism to me, thats its ok out of necessity to do.

And I believe my interpretation is the most accurate one that most would take out of reading that whole quote, especially in the context of the conversation we two are having right now. 🤷

And for the record, I completely disagree with Debord based on his quote you supplied.

Again, I'm not trying to trash your belief system, I'm just disagreeing with it strongly, and pushing back against it.

Lets just leave this as agree-to-disagree, and move on, ok?

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[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago

Reading their arguments for that silly disclaimer, and their purposeful disregard for any of the points you’re making… Your clown analogy is extremely on-point.

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Your footer rules, don't let them haters win!

[–] Snailpope@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Second

I want to steal that footer

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

I want to steal that footer

Here you go...

[~This~ ~comment~ ~is~ ~licensed~ ~under~ ~CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0~](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.en)

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Your footer rules, don’t let them haters win!

Thanks, I appreciate the support. And don't worry I won't. This isn't my first rodeo with those who don't like it. I just wish there was more moderation on Lemmy to combat it, so I can spend more time just interacting with others on posts content itself.

My point was just to say that while I'm sure there's good and decent human beings who may disagree but be able to debate issues online with each other, there's a whole other bunch that would rather just see things burn, if it doesn't line up exactly to their personal belief system, and that makes it problematic for someone to expose their inner issues to everyone else, even when they desperately need their help.

And that's before throwing in conflict AI bots, and astroturfers trying to generate activity, that just pollutes the waters even more.

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[–] breadguy@fedia.io 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

it doesn't do anything though lol

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Safe Harbor laws say otherwise. And Law trump ToS.

And I do believe that licenses will be enforced at some point, right now we're still in the Wild Wild West portion of things. Doesn't mean I don't want to lay down my markers now.

Also, I specifically want to make sure my comments are available for training for open source projects, which is what the license does.

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[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

People focus so much on “but it’s not enforceable” and “you don’t own what you say on the Internet” that they forget it’s a statement of intention.

You’re sharing your support, however nominal, for good causes. I see nothing wrong with that ¯\(ツ)

People used to put goofy-ass sign-offs on comments back in forum days; a couple extra lines of text that don’t hurt anybody shouldn’t be an issue.

You keep doing you, comrade. /gen /pos

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

People focus so much on “but it’s not enforceable” and “you don’t own what you say on the Internet” that they forget it’s a statement of intention.

My inner tinfoil hat persona thinks its just corporate bots/astroturfers trying to shape the narratived away from every adding a license to their comments, as it truly does hold legal power.

Regular people either agree to different degress, or think its harmless and don't care. Its only a few that REALLY REALLY REALLY get bent out of shape about it, for strange reasons (which goes back to fueling my inner tinfoil hat persona).

You’re sharing your support, however nominal, for good causes. I see nothing wrong with that ¯(ツ)/¯

Exactly, or moreso, additionally. My license allows for open-source/non-profit usage of my content, giving back to everybody else.

I just don't believe that Corporations should be able to make money off of my content without compensating me for it, as that is one of the fundamental tenants of Capitalism.

You keep doing you, comrade. /gen /pos

Thanks for your support, its appreciated. o7

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