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Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse (www.theverge.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are you kidding? Lemmy itself is 100% public and easily scrapable. It's likely easier to get data on users.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why would it not be profitable, it's still user data?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 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.