• Sabata@ani.social
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    5 months ago

    They haven’t figured out a good way to turn the federated data into cash yet.

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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.