Every single comment and post anyone ever names and anything they are subscribed to. Run everyone’s content through some sentiment analysis, and now you have a great set of users, emails and their commonly used IP, grouped into interests, general mood, and political leanings, perfect for advertising.
But if it’s just sat there silently data gathering, nobody would know?
So if I make an instance, I can scrape all the content and gather data on every user and sell it to Cambridge analytica?
A type of bean
Do you think spez was good once?
What’s to stop .world “defederating” and cutting all the new users off completely.
It’s an odd platform and one that feels like it could all fall apart to someone completely new to it all.
I look at “everything” and it shows everything people around the world have made, good and bad, how dare they!
I want to use zero amount of effort and have it catered to exactly what I like! But I don’t want to be tracked or have any algorithms knowing what I like!