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.

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[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They already can, everything you do on Mastadon is already public.

[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't believe it is legal to just scrape data from other servers to use in analytic advertisement data. If it was, then why even build an app at all? If we are the product, then why even do the other work and build your own website?

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is legal. It's all public info, anyone can scrape it.

[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So why you are telling me then is we should abolish Facebook and get some real privacy laws, and leave the internet.

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The new internet will be in the woods in the middle of nowhere dancing naked on mushrooms! It's the only place corporations won't follow

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You jest but that's exactly what it should be

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No jest, it's already one of my favourite activities