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Best thread I've seen thus far on the issue of Meta joining the Fediverse (social.coop)

submitted 1 year ago by Fabriek to c/fediverse

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[–] ttmrichter 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are users to be had.

You're still stuck in the mindset of surveillance capitalism. To an instance, users are a cost item, not a profit item. Meta/Alphabet/et al want all teh yoozers because that's where they siphon up the data that makes them their money. Users are a small cost item compared to the income they get from that data.

A Mastodon or Calckey or Lemmy or whatever instance doesn't make bank from having a huge user count. There's no incentive to vacuum up all teh yoozers.