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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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So can Facebook harvest our data even though we aren't on their instance?
Facebook can harvest all the data in all the instances while being defederated.
So, hear me out... What if we put a scheme in place where anyone who wanted to use the API had to pay for access? And then we charge like 20x what we should to put them out of business. I am sure that would work out well.