Beehaw is an old instance (two years, so “old” is relative). They have their own thing going on, and didn’t want to change their groove for the influx of redditors.

“Hey, Joe, tell people we won’t use their data for AI without their permission!”

“But… they already gave permission by accepting the TOS, didn’t they?”

“Yeah, but they’re too stupid to realize that. So just keep repeating that we won’t use their data without their permission. That’ll get ‘em off our backs.”

Time to pull up my big boy undies and start riding my bike. That sucker ain’t controlled by anyone but me. <middle finger to the car companies, wobbles down the road on a two-wheeler>

It’s a familiar process for those who lived through the early days of the internet.