• prole
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    5 months ago

    Are you kidding? Lemmy itself is 100% public and easily scrapable. It’s likely easier to get data on users.

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      5 months ago

      It still needs to be profitable for them. Why would they want non profitable content freeloading on their servers? No doubt it will be collected and sold, just a work in progress.

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        5 months ago

        Why would it not be profitable, it’s still user data?

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          5 months ago

          They sell it to advertisers. We would be hard to target since were not on Metas platform. I would think it’s worth less since its not immediately usable for stuffing an ad down our throats and pseudoanonymous.