Post #1863664
2025-09-17 22:16 UTC
Further PSA 2, where do we go instead?
Probably the current best option is Knowledge Commons, which is run as a nonprofit and can be found at hcommons.org (they also run the hcommons.social mastodon server). Knowledge Commons gives you essentially the same profile-building tools as Academia with far less slop and more control over what's going on.
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@JubalBarca@scholar.social 2025-09-17 23:26
Further PSA 3: Mitigations/Caveats to the above: - Sites do need a rights clause to be able to share your posts. - The rights clauses have two limiters: first, you grant rights "in connection with operating and providing the Services": but this explicitly includes making derivative works, which I suspect aren't thus limited. - Second, Academia agrees not to sell user content for a profit (but, again, derivatives) I'm unconvinced that these limiters protect against AI-churning content at all.