Brutkey

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

Almost all the servers on Mastodon and the wider Fediverse are run by unpaid grassroots volunteers that pay their server's bills out of their own pockets.

They don't sell your data or carry advertising, and they don't get any share of the donations given to the Mastodon etc software developers.

Please consider donating to your server admin, they usually have donation links on your server website's "About" page. You can also ask your admin directly about how to donate.

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Joel P.
@joelp@mastodon.sdf.org

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

They don't sell your data...

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@joelp@mastodon.sdf.org

Which data do you mean?

Joel P.
@joelp@mastodon.sdf.org

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services This :) All threads.

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@joelp@mastodon.sdf.org

How would an instance admin sell a public thread?

Surely LLMs etc will just slurp it without asking permission?

Joel P.
@joelp@mastodon.sdf.org

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services Yes, good point. Monetization of any kind isn't done by anyone hosting.

Thanks. I tend to think worst case in this age of surveillance economy.

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@joelp@mastodon.sdf.org

It's totally fair to ask about risk of data sales, and a reasonable attitude 🙂

As far as I know it hasn't happened, but of course there's always a risk online.

One thing that's really good about the Fedi is it doesn't ask for more personal data than it needs, there's no requirement for a phone number or real name or personal photo etc.