Hachyderm
We hope everyone had a great first full week of July! Below is a link to this month's moderator minutes where will cover: welcoming new users to Mastodon, volunteering with Hachyderm, decisions around Lemmy/kbin, and what’s going on with the Meta instance.
https://community.hachyderm.io/blog/2023/07/07/a-minute-from-the-moderators/
Dust
@hachyderm
> The instance must not monetize their users’ data without their informed consent or monetize the data of other users on the Fediverse without their informed consent
Lol, appreciate keeping an open stance but, there's zero chance Meta will resist farming the fediverse for data and profit. Sounds like federation is (thankfully) DOA just on this single principle
Ryan Smith
@captdust @hachyderm I read it that way too but I wonder if a finer line could (should?) be drawn than just “defederate for-profit instances”.
Due to the nature of ActivityPub, any monetization would be limited to Threads’ own users plus any public posts from other instances. They can’t (I believe) monetize our viewing habits for example.
This isn’t very different from a search engine indexing a post and showing ads in search results that include your post?
Dust
@realitythreek @hachyderm indeed their scope will be limited to what is posted, but I feel that's still enough to build adequate and monetizable usage profile. I want my content being federated to trustworthy instances.. however, meta, they have the engineers and motive to build the tools that will slice and dice the data firehose into whatever forms needed by their "customers". I'm not so worried about the ads next to my content, I'm worried about how that aggregated data could be used and sold
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