What constitutes Usage Data. Is it sharing the posts I view, communities I subscribe to etc?

Does paying for a premium version stop this data being collected?

  • janWilejan@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    People have been saying some variant of “the fediverse won’t work at scale if it stays free and without ads” for a decade now. And yet it keeps growing despite remaining free and without ads.

    • syrinori@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      What scale is it at and what scale are we comparing it to? For Lemmy the comparison is reddit, and there is absolutely no way donations would cover the sheer cost of compute required to compete with a user base of that size.

      I’m not going to bother looking into the numbers but I’m thinking all of the fediverse together doesn’t even come close to that user base.

    • njinx@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      lemmy.world has frequent outages that last most of the day. It wouldn’t say its exactly smooth sailing