I just crossposted this. Feel free to help and repost it in plain text or with alt text. This place builds on cooperation. Be the change you want to see.
It definitely is. But thats not the point. The point is they cant claim the data and profit from it. The reason we are entering another information scarcity era is because companies paywall the content we created.
Actually that's partially why I started putting the creative commons license in my comments. Legally I'm probably not gonna be able to support it in court but for me its more about saying fuck you to the commercialization of everything.
The difference is they don't control it, it's public, can't really sell data that's public. They also can't shake the platforms into for profit hellscapes like YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc.
Big tech has been controlling the Internet for too long and it's time it stopped.