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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The difference is advertising. Lemmy has no incentive to sell you out. A company like reddit will squeeze every legal penny out of your personal info and then some more illegally if they think they can get away with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That is unless the instance owners enters into an advertising deal with a company.

To keep the instance "afloat"