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[โ€“] meco03211@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The difference is advertising. Lemmy has no incentive to sell you out. A company like reddit will squeeze every legal penny out of your personal info and then some more illegally if they think they can get away with it.

[โ€“] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That is unless the instance owners enters into an advertising deal with a company.

To keep the instance "afloat"