For sure!! The data they can get from federation isn’t a ton more than from scraping sites.
But scraping sites is HARD and we’re better off NOT making it easier for them.
Facebook is also likely to put effort into rebuilding existing communities on their federated version of the sites encouraging users to go there. They’ll make it really attractive.
And then they get MORE data because they will be able to see and aggregate which communities you look at and browse. They can’t get that without federation.
And that entirely ignores the “embrace extend extinguish” angle that I assure you is coming.
Because they’re bound to their stockholders to always produce the most profit, and letting people browse “other” services doesn’t play well with that.
For sure!! The data they can get from federation isn’t a ton more than from scraping sites.
But scraping sites is HARD and we’re better off NOT making it easier for them.
Facebook is also likely to put effort into rebuilding existing communities on their federated version of the sites encouraging users to go there. They’ll make it really attractive.
And then they get MORE data because they will be able to see and aggregate which communities you look at and browse. They can’t get that without federation.
And that entirely ignores the “embrace extend extinguish” angle that I assure you is coming.
Because they’re bound to their stockholders to always produce the most profit, and letting people browse “other” services doesn’t play well with that.