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Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media (techcrunch.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Wilshire to c/fediverse

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

profit corporation being able to suck up your posts

anyone can spin up a server and federate, anyone can suck up your data, corporations, governments or unknowns

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yes, but consuming data and using someone else's data for profit are 2 different things. Don't believe me, start reposting a large news websites data verbatim with AdSense on it and see how quickly the cease and desist comes.