Somehow people still don’t understand when a service is free. You’re the product
They don’t understand what being the product means because they don’t understand why their data being sold off is a problem because they don’t understand why their data is valuable.
It’s already in all the service agreements that you click on when you sign up. They’ve already been harvesting data. They already have the right to use your posts and pictures for whatever they want
He says, on a free service.
Open source doesn’t really count, especially with Lemmy where you just can host it yourself and there’s no way for anyone to harvest your data really
I understand the irony 😅
He says, on a free service.
I make a monthly donation to the folks running mastodon.world (they also run lemmy.world). Yeah it’s free but you can and should contribute sometimes to keep it that way.
There’s something funny about the phrase “paying for stuff so that it stays free”
This relies on a zero-sum view of the world, which is unfortunately common but isn’t necessarily so.
