"If the fines...Facebook faced for invading our privacy exceeded the ad-targeting revenue it makes by doing so, it would stop spying on us. Facebook wouldn't like it. Zuck would hate it. But he'd do it, because he spies on us to make money, not because he's a voyeur." Totally excellent piece from @pluralistic on profit, enshittification and federation https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/#praxis