Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I’m not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.

  • @boonhet@lemm.ee
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    71 year ago

    Meta isn’t really in the data SELLING business. It’d be counterproductive to let their competitors have access to all the data they do - it’s what keeps their advertising network competitive. Same goes for Google. They don’t want third parties to have access to your data, they want to be THE company that sells targeted advertisements.

    • 🅿🅸🆇🅴🅻
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      41 year ago

      Sell it in bulk to governments for large sums of money for which advertising isn’t their interest.

      • @boonhet@lemm.ee
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        11 year ago

        Oh what makes you think governments need to pay for that? Is free if you’re a big enough market.