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		jezzamon on Oct 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Helping wikis move away from Fandom A data moat of user provided wiki contents? The thing that this article is advocating for the users themselves to own over the hosting site?? Somehow I don't think that is the solution.

languagehacker on Oct 10, 2024 [–]

The licensing on that stuff is complicated, and I haven't looked at it in a while. It does allow you to take your toys and leave, but for those that don't, it would be simple enough to prevent ethical AI scrapers from extracting that content. That's all I mean by data moat in this context.

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