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They always were.
Only now they've agreed to pay Reddit for it. This is what their third party lockdown was really all about.
They're helping themselves to your Lemmy comments for free, as that's just how it's designed. If you post anything publicly anywhere, it's getting slurped up by a bot somewhere.
I'm not a lawyer. But isn't the reason they had to go to reddit to get permission is because users hand over over ownership to reddit the moment you post. And since there's no such clause on Lemmy, they'd have to ask the actual authors of the comments for permission instead?
Mind you, I understand there's no technical limitation that prevents bots from harvesting the data, I'm talking about the legality. After all, public does not equate public domain.
Well even if it was a legal argument, they wouldn't care. Like Facebook and all the rest. They say they don't share your data but we all know that's a lie
They are public communication platforms, how could they not share your data publicly?
Not all your data should be public