• possibly a cat
    link
    fedilink
    English
    10
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    Someone is going to at some point. Whoever it is might do it behind-the-scenes if they are risk-averse.

    Think of what the granular user data is worth on an instance that big.

    Want to buy user data? If reddit tells you no that’s that, but in the fediverse you can go and ask the next largest instance if the first one says no. The game theory is a little more complex here in the fediverse.

    When it does happen, I hope the backlash will be appropriately large. I don’t think any of the key stakeholders here want to see a normalization of lemmy being monetized in this way - through donations sure, but not by selling the users’ attention and privacy to 3rd parties.

    • gabe [he/him]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      62 years ago

      Those that even remotely consider scraping data on Mastodon consistently face intense harassment and criticism.