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this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2024
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Most Lemmy servers don't relentlessly track and sell everything you do though. Discord makes way more money off your data than it costs them to host.
Lol. Your data is worth maybe $5, maybe $10 if you discuss financial platforms often, there's no way that'll cover the costs of hosting media for years. Just watching or hosting a video stream every month will probably run you over the money your data is worth. Individual data is practically worthless, and aggregate data doesn't sell for a lot when you divide the total worth by the amount of users covered.
Discord is alive because of their premium subscription, their data sales are just a little bonus on top. Their own statistics claim 200 million active users per months with 600 million in revenue per year. Those $3 per user start to run real thin when you're essentially running a free S3 server with 8MB blobs.
Your data is worth about $5-$10 a month, at least for Facebook. A month.
And they don't sell to Facebook, nor does it sell any ads to advertisers willing to pay that rate, so that's a rather useless statistic.