If that is true in any way whatsoever, that is a completely moronic long term goal. Lemmy devs themselves have encouraged instances who do such a thing to defederate. I don’t see how realistically advertising or monetization would be done not only without immense privacy concerns that would likely affect the rest of the fediverse but without major protests and mass defederation. The backlash against it would be immense, not just on lemmy but across the fediverse itself.
The lemmy.world admins are pretty much disgruntled power tripping redditors. They aren’t thinking that far ahead. They’re definitely going to go for the dumbest move they can possibly pull off and count on their reddit users to argue in favour of it as a “reasonable, sensible choice after all”.
I have no proof but I think lemmy.world will be monetized at some point.
If that is true in any way whatsoever, that is a completely moronic long term goal. Lemmy devs themselves have encouraged instances who do such a thing to defederate. I don’t see how realistically advertising or monetization would be done not only without immense privacy concerns that would likely affect the rest of the fediverse but without major protests and mass defederation. The backlash against it would be immense, not just on lemmy but across the fediverse itself.
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Those that even remotely consider scraping data on Mastodon consistently face intense harassment and criticism.
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Can’t you just scrape everything without ever saying a word to the admins though?
The lemmy.world admins are pretty much disgruntled power tripping redditors. They aren’t thinking that far ahead. They’re definitely going to go for the dumbest move they can possibly pull off and count on their reddit users to argue in favour of it as a “reasonable, sensible choice after all”.