The mozilla thing seems to be mostly bad PR, but yeah…
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The mozilla thing seems to be mostly bad PR, but yeah…
The same can be said about gmail and it is the same kind of problem here. Yes lemmy.world is not a profit orient it giant, but it is still a problem when one actor has this power over a federated network. (the scale of the problem is of course a lot larger with gmail)
My guess is that they just needed to have their own community for a lot of stuff because so many instances are defederated from them. Though I am not sure…
https://youtu.be/-8bTquKjzos That sums it up. The definition of what counts as “selling data” changed…