• MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Which of the above sentences is supposed to make me think that it is impossible for Meta to scrape more privacy destroying data, if they go all in on the fediverse?

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      11 months ago

      Any data they can get from federating, they can get much easier by just scraping it. If your goal is data harvesting, implementing ActivityPub is a huge waste of money

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        11 months ago

        They’re going to get more useful data from users they know everything about (threads users) interacting with us, than just scraping with an instance.

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          11 months ago

          They already have those users. Giving them access to the tiny pool of users in the fediverse isn’t going to give them an appreciable increase in data.