YSK: Lemmy has 53k monthly active users but only 1172 have ever donated - eviltoast
  • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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    9 months ago

    sell it

    Sell it? For what, 0 dollars? If anyone wants the data, they can just set up an instance themselves.

    The data is freely available. Just like open source stuff.

    • umami_wasabi@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      The vaule of the data totally relies on the aggregation process. It involves grouping, categorizing, and linking the unstructured data into a relatable and structured format. For example, A data harvesting company can use their own existing data and link a Lemmy user to a known identity or the probability to a known identity, using techniques like NLP and statistics. That’s value.

      Data most of the time are free, but there are also datasets sold for a price.