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    4 months ago

    It’s not like we’ll not see it coming Once threads.net starts federating with the big instances, it’s all over

    The information that can be gathered and sold is pretty intense, even when your account is on another instance

    • All your posts and comments (this is public information, no cause for alarm)
    • Everything you upvote/downvote
    • Every time you load an image from another instance (link tracking, can probably be correlated with your IP address you signed into facebook with)
    • With enough posts in your feed tracking you, a general picture of your interests and time of day you interact with lemmy will form, which can be sold





  • Depends what areas of education you mean. I think the most important areas people need to know more about in order to better the world as a whole are literacy, numeracy and world issues (war, current politics, climate change, etc).

    Spending $100B to make university free would just accelerate a new problem that the world is facing: overeducation. Now it’s harder to get a job without a college degree as a minimum, especially above minimum wage, even though the skills gained in the degree are not what is actually in demand or being used in whatever job someone ends up with.

    Granted that’s mainly a problem in the USA at the moment, and with $100B you could also fund a lot of R&D so people studying STEM end up in STEM jobs bettering the world.