• umami_wasabi@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    Ads they won’t (At least I believe so.) But I won’t be surprised that some data harvesting companies have servers set up to collect all the data, aggregate, and sell it. Lemmy is an openly federated platform after all.

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      7 months ago

      sell it

      Sell it? For what, 0 dollars? If anyone wants the data, they can just set up an instance themselves.

      The data is freely available. Just like open source stuff.

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        7 months ago

        The vaule of the data totally relies on the aggregation process. It involves grouping, categorizing, and linking the unstructured data into a relatable and structured format. For example, A data harvesting company can use their own existing data and link a Lemmy user to a known identity or the probability to a known identity, using techniques like NLP and statistics. That’s value.

        Data most of the time are free, but there are also datasets sold for a price.