• theherk@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    82
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    7 months ago

    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?

    • umami_wasabi@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      31
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      7 months ago

      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.

      • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        7 months ago

        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.

        • umami_wasabi@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          7 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.