• @meco03211
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    431 year ago

    The difference is advertising. Lemmy has no incentive to sell you out. A company like reddit will squeeze every legal penny out of your personal info and then some more illegally if they think they can get away with it.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      That is unless the instance owners enters into an advertising deal with a company.

      To keep the instance “afloat”

    • mishimaenjoyer
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      -351 year ago

      just wait 5 years, the fediverse will either be dead or swallowed up by meta. the only two things it has to go for it is the decentralized nature and the absence of open advertisements.

      • @[email protected]
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        221 year ago

        I’ve heard that about FOSS projects before they really blew up. Good things do happen sometimes.

        • @jaybone
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          11 year ago

          Yeah I wouldn’t be surprised if fb or Reddit started their own Lemmy instances, which they would use to post ads, and have some user-transparent integration with their native platform.

          But I bet a lot of instances would de-fed them like you say.

        • mishimaenjoyer
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          -11 year ago

          yeah, maybe, it will just keep staying under the radar and at some point someone will have to spend some cash to keep the lights on.