How big would be the backlash and consequences if one of the instances for eg: .world or .ml turned out to be selling data ?
Is there any laws against it ? Will the admins walk scot free ? This question just popped into my head its not serious but do feel free to answer .
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It's not like we'll not see it coming Once threads.net starts federating with the big instances, it's all over
The information that can be gathered and sold is pretty intense, even when your account is on another instance
Time-of-day tracking by third parties already happened on Reddit, had external sites dedicated to it. Not Reddit selling it, just that that information necessarily gets exposed and can be mined. So that's not really unique to the Threadiverse. Though being aware of it is probably a good idea.
What are they gonna do with that though? Not like they can show you ads. And again, they can do that without federating.