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Still doesn't explain how public posts on a public, decentralized social media platform are implied to be "mine" or that I have any influence on the end use. It's hosted on someone else's computer from the get go, if anything the server owners are the content owners more than I am.
Edit it'd be like if I started seeding a file on a torrent platform, then got upset when someone downloaded it.
That's not how copyright works, if it did GitHub would own every project on their site.
Where is the copyright on Lemmy?
Any material you create is implicitly copyright and owned by you. Comments without licences are equivalent to GitHub repos without licences, you can't use them
Implicit is not durable, especially when the servers could be federated all over the world.
I write a book that gets published. I still hold copyright over it even if it is in someone else's bookshelf. What rights the copyright holder and the person has is regulated by law. For example a physical book can be resold or lent to someone else, but it is not allowed to copy it and sell the copies.
I can cite text from the boom, that falls under fair use but I cannot use whole chapters in a derived work.
I still hold copyright over my messages online, even when it is public or published, that is basic copyright law in most relevant legislations. If the training of an LLM and later selling access to the LLM with copyright infringed data is fair use is yet to be determined.
There is no copyright on publicly posted messages.
Edit none that is durable
Sure there is, most messages are probably too short but in general yes. There is no difference to an online article.
There is no evidence you have any durable rights to your comments on Lemmy. It's hosted on someone else's machine and they have complete control.