People probably should be more aware that what happens on here is mostly public and also why that’s a better alternative to only giving data to private networks run by companies with trade secrets.

Giving data out to everyone prevents an outsized amount of leverage being given to single companies. Facebook doesn’t have anywhere near as much kingmaking power if the same methods can be used by competitors or exposed and mitigated for outright.

Being open source, you also can know exactly what the fediverse is collecting and it’s currently a fuck load less than the massive data stream companies like Facebook record.