fullfathomfive (@fullfathomfive@aus.social)
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From 2015 to 2022, I spent hundreds of hours on Duolingo, translating articles, answering language questions on the forums, and helping to improve the smaller courses by reporting mistakes. There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo: the course creators who wrote their courses, the volunteers who created grammar guides (some smaller languages had an entire second course in the forums), the wiki contributors, the native speakers who answered questions in the sentence discussions. All of their work made Duolingo the powerhouse it is today. Duo was built by a community who believed in its original mission: language learning should be free and accessible. Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company. And now that work is being fed into their AI as training data. Well, I've learned the true lesson of Duolingo: never give a corporation your labour for free. Don't ever trust them, no matter what they say. Eventually greed will consume any good intentions. #duolingo #languagelearning #enshittification #capitalism
  • CAVOK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    47·
    11 months ago

    I’m contributing to openstreetmap because I think there should be a free alternative to Google or Apple maps.

    Am I running the risk of having my contributions stolen?

      • CAVOK@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        11 months ago

        Thanks. I’ll continue my small contributions then.

        If anyone want to help I can recommend StreetComplete. It’s a bit like pokemon go, but you’ll help improve the map of the world instead. Only in android now I think.

        • curiousPJ@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          Ohhh interesting, just grabbed it on F-droid. I’ll be playing around with this for a while.

        • Meowoem@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          21·
          11 months ago

          Oh I should do that, I’m often in new builds and redevelopments, I’d think that’s where it’s needed most?

          • CAVOK@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            I think it’s needed everywhere. I can start it wherever I happen to be and find a lot of “quests/tasks” to complete.

            • Meowoem@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              21·
              11 months ago

              Thanks yeah I’ve downloded it and there are loads of little quests, I’ll give it a try

    • Nom Nom@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      11 months ago

      Open source is a safe bet since anyone can make a new fork(Spin-off) of the original if it went down a direction you didn’t like or just wanted to make a version with your preferred features. So openstreetmap is the current safest option since it has an Open Database License.

      • wikibot@lemmy.worldBEnglish
        61·
        11 months ago

        Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

        The Open Database License (ODbL) is a copyleft license agreement intended to allow users to freely share, modify, and use a database while maintaining this same freedom for others.ODbL is published by Open Data Commons, which is part of Open Knowledge Foundation.The ODbL was created with the goal of allowing users to share their data freely without worrying about problems relating to copyright or ownership. It allows users to freely use the data in the database, including in other databases; edit existing data in the database; and add new data to the database. The license establishes the rights of users of the database, as well as the correct procedure for attributing credit where credit is due for the data, and how to make changes or improvements in the data, thus simplifying the sharing and comparison of data.

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