▲ 1149 ▼ "There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo... Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company." (aus.social) submitted 2 years ago by Star@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world 239 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 18 points 2 years ago (2 children) Same for people contributing to google maps permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (2 children) Or Instagram, Facebook, reddit.... Lemmy. I guess Lemmy isn't a company so we have that going but if it's not your own instance you are technically doing work for someone else. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago Lemmy is more akin to helping out a community open-source project than helping out a company permalink fedilink source parent [–] namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago At least Lemmy data is public for anyone to read. I don't care that much if random groups are sucking up all this data for themselves - it's worth it in my opinion because it means good actors can use it for good too. If it were all going to one company, I would be less happy about the fact that they could just black hole it all for nobody's benefit but their own. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) I mean, I do that for me. If I'm going to a road I want the name and address to be right. I use g maps a ton. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) I wrote the comment more as throwing some complementary thoughts. I understand how hard it is not to use google when they provide essential services. Regarding maps, I've been trying to use openstreetmaps as much as I can, and adding places using streetcomplete, but every now and then, I find myself using google too. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (2 children) Or Instagram, Facebook, reddit.... Lemmy. I guess Lemmy isn't a company so we have that going but if it's not your own instance you are technically doing work for someone else. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago Lemmy is more akin to helping out a community open-source project than helping out a company permalink fedilink source parent [–] namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago At least Lemmy data is public for anyone to read. I don't care that much if random groups are sucking up all this data for themselves - it's worth it in my opinion because it means good actors can use it for good too. If it were all going to one company, I would be less happy about the fact that they could just black hole it all for nobody's benefit but their own. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago Lemmy is more akin to helping out a community open-source project than helping out a company permalink fedilink source parent
[–] namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago At least Lemmy data is public for anyone to read. I don't care that much if random groups are sucking up all this data for themselves - it's worth it in my opinion because it means good actors can use it for good too. If it were all going to one company, I would be less happy about the fact that they could just black hole it all for nobody's benefit but their own. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) I mean, I do that for me. If I'm going to a road I want the name and address to be right. I use g maps a ton. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) I wrote the comment more as throwing some complementary thoughts. I understand how hard it is not to use google when they provide essential services. Regarding maps, I've been trying to use openstreetmaps as much as I can, and adding places using streetcomplete, but every now and then, I find myself using google too. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) I wrote the comment more as throwing some complementary thoughts. I understand how hard it is not to use google when they provide essential services. Regarding maps, I've been trying to use openstreetmaps as much as I can, and adding places using streetcomplete, but every now and then, I find myself using google too. permalink fedilink source parent