The Rise of Social Analytics on Mastodon

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There's an increase in analytics services on the fediverse nowadays, and the trend seems to be shifting from personal to business products.

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There’s a potential for surveillance capitalism to become more normalized on the network.

I think these tools can be a real benefit in legitimizing the fediverse, but they need to be developed carefully, with concern for user privacy.

Seems to me that by their very nature the for-profit, business- facing of these are going to prioritise the needs of surveillance capitalism over user privacy in the way they develop.