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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

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(Feel free to remove this as off-topic, but this relates to the post about the r/Piracy poll regarding what content will be permitted upon reopening. The body of this post wouldn't get the same reach as a comment on that post.)

Ahoy hearties! Here what I be thinkin'. Reddit be chargin' tens of millions of doubloons for third-mates to access the API, aye? They be claimin' to deserve a share of the booty for providin' trainin' data for AI (and obviously to kill competition with third-mate apps to boot).

Methinks if yee MUST chatter with those landlubbers (such as for the purpose of recruitin' new mates or cussing out mutinous scabs), then yee ought to make any text data yee provide unappealing and unusable to potential AI-training-customers.

Paintings of (Sexy) Captain John Oliver will only sully the attention of the human users. But (pirate) coded language mayhaps be an obstruction for bots? For those who find pirate speak to be too much effort, an alternative be to speak "sdrawkcaB".

I can no longer cast my bottled messages to Reddit's shore, so any of you seadogs are free to pass it along.

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[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

If ye find writin' in Corsair speak too difficult, probably maybe also fer non native speakers, then ye can use online tools t' convert yer text fer ye!

https://pirate-speech-translator.netlify.app/
https://pirate.monkeyness.com/translate
https://funtranslations.com/pirate
https://lingojam.com/PirateSpeak

etc.

[–] lemonadebunny@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about those who use screenreaders? It would be unfair to them

[–] BleakBluets@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ultimately, the goal of the protest should be to get as many users off of Reddit as possible.

It's all about harm reduction (or maximization, in this case) and minimizing the amount of traffic and useful data to Reddit. There are going to be situations where giving screenreader users the information about Lemmy/kbin will transition users off of Reddit. In that case, the number of users leaving Reddit probably outweighs the cost of providing a minuscule amount of data to Reddit in the couple of comments it takes to advertise transitioning to Lemmy/kbin to such users.

It's up to the individual to make that evaluation for themselves. If you want to propose a Lemmy/kbin alternative to Redditors on r/screenreader, then yeah, probably don't use encoded text.