As the fediverse continues to grow, larger organizations and public figures are increasing their presence on the network. Many of them are looking to metrics to understand their reach in the community.

There’s an increase in analytics services on the fediverse nowadays, and the trend seems to be shifting from personal to business products.

  • livus@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    There’s a potential for surveillance capitalism to become more normalized on the network.

    I think these tools can be a real benefit in legitimizing the fediverse, but they need to be developed carefully, with concern for user privacy.

    Seems to me that by their very nature the for-profit, business- facing of these are going to prioritise the needs of surveillance capitalism over user privacy in the way they develop.