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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/16660104

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ugh! Can’t they just monetize the sale of our personal data and push nauseating ads every other post… like any other respectable post aggregation platform?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Ads they won't (At least I believe so.) But I won't be surprised that some data harvesting companies have servers set up to collect all the data, aggregate, and sell it. Lemmy is an openly federated platform after all.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

sell it

Sell it? For what, 0 dollars? If anyone wants the data, they can just set up an instance themselves.

The data is freely available. Just like open source stuff.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

The vaule of the data totally relies on the aggregation process. It involves grouping, categorizing, and linking the unstructured data into a relatable and structured format. For example, A data harvesting company can use their own existing data and link a Lemmy user to a known identity or the probability to a known identity, using techniques like NLP and statistics. That's value.

Data most of the time are free, but there are also datasets sold for a price.