Gregory's Serverso here is where I have an honest question : how did they ensnare you? What did you think you were doing? Because I remember watching all that BS go down and opting out, and warning people who were like, nah you are crazy paranoid. But I was the teeniest minority, and just like they didnt get me, I did not get why people donated their time and energy to training someone else's content farm, ad tech, AI in development.
So honestly --what sucked you and everyone else in?
@cyberlyra Honestly, after they pivoted away from crowd-sourced translations and into paid subscriptions, I started to see through it. By the time they fired all the volunteers some of us were encouraging people to leave.
But the community was so big - it was like FB or Twitter. If you were passionate about languages, that was where your community was. Platform inertia made it really hard to leave.