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1. 👣 ghose [:mastodon:] (xosem@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2019 10:17:20 UTC 👣 ghose [:mastodon:]

   • louis

   @louis good point and that's something I use to tell people. And there are bots crawling #fediverse too 😉

   but yes, it doesn't make any sense from a surveillance capitalism perspective having 10, 20 or 100.000 users. One should consider specific servers like switter or japanesse mastodon nodes which are very specific and target some people. They sure have nice statistic's pages from their database.

   • louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2019 10:22:39 UTC louis

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     @xosem yet any larger federated instance may collect its users data too. The larger single federated instance becomes the more chance there is for that to happen. Inquiries for advertising on GNU Social are coming every few weeks. Even admins need some money, they will be selling advertising sooner or later. Admins are paying for federated instances out of their hobby, many instances disappeared already. They will be asking for donations or enabling advertising on GNU Social #gnusocial #pleroma #mastodon -- this can be globally prevented by having as many federated instances as possible. Open up your own instance now on Vultr https://www.vultr.com/?ref=8226274 or Digital Ocean Web Hosting: https://m.do.co/c/564f4aeba6a8
   • louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2019 10:23:45 UTC louis

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     @xosem free US $50 credit with Vultr to open up your instance https://www.vultr.com/?ref=8226275-4F -- and https://gnu.support GNU Support to install your own GNU Social, Pleroma, or Mastodon for US $15 only.
   • louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2019 10:24:12 UTC louis

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     @xosem prices changing by hour... 😃
   • louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2019 13:19:06 UTC louis

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     @xosem well it makes sense to have many users, provided there are many instances. Now we have few instances and few have of them have many users, this allows them to coerce their own way on shaping the federation.