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Mastodon's Founder & CEO Gives His Thoughts on Meta's Threads (blog.joinmastodon.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I'm not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh what makes you think governments need to pay for that? Is free if you're a big enough market.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-us-government-purchases-your-user-data-heres-what-it-does-with-it/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm surprised that they pay for it. They could just demand it through all kinds of national security laws.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh they definitely do that stuIf but when they do they have to disclose that to the senate or whomever oversees such things. This way they can quietly buy up a shit ton of data with whatever dark budgets they have access to.