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Freebooting of news article is distinctly what this is about. Content creators losing clicks, impressions, and ad revenue due to Metas methodology.
People can have a whinge “it’s news corp so fugg them” but just because something hurts something you don’t like doesn’t make it okay.
This. Freebooting is a huge issue and Meta made it a big thing and profits from it.
A video or image goes viral. Creator has it on a platform where they can monetise or benefit from the views. Some chucklefugg at a content network like ladbible takes it, strips watermarks and logos, posts it on their own Facebook page. Facebook makes money off the adverts on that page.
Original creator is deprived of clicks, and likely revenue, dutifully completes a DMCA on their stolen content. Maybe a day or two later Meta takes it down. They don’t care, they still made money. Ladbible got a few thousand more subscribers to make impressions on their promoted posts, which nets then more money. The virality of the content has passed, the original creator doesn’t even get 1% of the same clicks and even less credit for their work.
Now multiply the number of content networks by about 500. Some of whom are fully automated with no human intervention.
This is not okay, and Meta should be held to task for creating a financial incentive for people to do this.
You can call it what you want. But Lemmy does not represent the general populace. Or Reddit. Or Twitter/X. Or Facebook.
This isn’t a real place. And it gets tiresome decade after decade seeing people shocked_pikachhu.jpeg when it turns out their online communities of choice aren’t the majority opinion.
In niche online communities, yes. Among the general population, no.
Edit: obligatory related PBF
I’m not saying you are right or wrong, but if we suspend voting for ~1/3rd of our adult population, then what we are practicing is no longer a democracy.
Indeed. Apollo I didn’t land on the moon. Even after building on 20 Gemini missions. Apollo 11 was the iteration that landed on the moon.
It certainly is low… to the ground
Personification?
Edit: Anthropomorphic Personification!
(GNU Sir Terry Pratchett)
Should be the gut, not the head. A slower and much more painful death
They pass Australian safety ratings. They are rather popular here
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“At what hour does the narwhal bacon?”
Microplastics I guess. Or calamari/squid rings
It was never turned on in the first place. Read the article, not the clickbait headlines that have circulated (this one is on point though, credit to BBC)
Are you high? Got an agenda? Astroturfing? Shilling? LARPing one of these things?
It’s literally about freebooting content.