You can’t exactly feed it a manual and expect it to extrapolate or understand (for that matter “what manual).
You can do that to a degree (RLVR). They are also paying human experts. But that’s the situation now. Who knows how it will be in a couple more years. Maybe training AIs will be like writing a library, framework, …
Good pitch. You could also ask people to help out with the more expensive computations. Say, adding alt text.
In the client, you wouldn’t need to be sorting and running extensive calculations on all data. You could, e.g, build the front-page by indexing/scoring posts and comments that have been created since your last visit with a hard cap on some time window (last 48h) or total data points (e.g, keep only the most recent 10k objects in a local hot database, freeze/archive everyhing else.)
Absolutely. There’s a lot you can do. The “For You” Feed on Bluesky is quite instructive. https://bsky.app/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mb2r5qei322a
But when you’re talking about sending a lot more data to clients, you really need to consider what that means for the internet bill of instance owners.
Embrace content sorting and filtering algorithms, but on the client side, with optional control by the user.
You can only filter and sort what was downloaded by the client. So that runs into resource constraints.
Standardize tags on all content. So many of the different ways different platforms classify or organize content can be implemented as tags, which increases interoperability between them.
I’m so with you. https://xkcd.com/927/
Transferable user identity (between instances)
User identity and authentication as separate service from social network instance
That’s more the ATproto/Bluesky vision.
In principle, the law makes it possible to coerce a monopolist to contract. Alternatively, contract clauses which create or abuse a monopoly may be void.
Of course. Like you and me, they are more or less free to do as they please.
Makes sense. But then, why make the deal?
Not sure I’m following this. Why would Reddit not want paying clients?
There are legal clients for Reddit from third parties. Building another client cannot be prevented from Reddit.
If you need Reddit’s permission to connect to Reddit, then Reddit can grant or deny permission under the condition that you only use approved clients.
Adding comments from other social networks would be the only difference that is needed for the initially suggested mixing of social networks. I don’t think that Reddit has the right to prevent that.
It very much has that right in the EU. First, there’s copyright. The US has Fair Use, the EU doesn’t. The EU has a database right, a kind of intellectual property which does not exist in the US. There’s also contract law, ie what it says in the TOS. In the US, you can’t use contract law to override Fair Use. Then there’s the GDPR, which is always a tough call. It might be legal enough for most purposes.
I was thinking about a scenario where the moderators, or some part of the community, decide to migrate. I should have clarified that.
True. It only makes migration easier, but that’s still something.
That’s not quite what the judgment was about. Anyway, I don’t understand what point you are trying to make.
Yes. The problem is that those are very American solutions. In Europe these ideas are just unacceptable. European values, fundamental values, and all that.
Maybe take a look at that link I posted above. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Inc._v._Power_Ventures,_Inc.
You don’t need an API. The law says that you need permission.
Another technological possibility is to scrape a subreddit to migrate the discussions to EG Lemmy. That might actually be legal in the US but certainly not in Europe.
The lock-in comes from network effects that cannot be overcome easily.
That is mainly a legal problem.
EG you could have a combined Reddit/Lemmy client that fetches messages from both. You create a Lemmy community that complements a Reddit community. The client fetches posts/comments from both and combines them in your interface.
That’s illegal even in the US (case law). In the EU it’s hyper-illegal because you go up against copyright, database rights, and GDPR.
The EU has actually picked up on the importance of interoperability and mandates it in the DSA, but I have no idea how that is supposed to work, given all the other regulations.
It’s all LLM bots, farms from Russia/Israel, alt-right propaganda, pedo that pretend to be kids, and aggressive data collections.
Which of those is you?
You do realize that you are on social media right now, yes?
The assumption seems to be that an LLM can’t figure out a manual or source code. If it can’t, then you have to pay people. But that’s not a universally valid assumption.