The privacy concerns for social network data trading is most often in regards to data they collect on you when you're using **other** services/websites, so they can target ads to you when you're back on their social network.
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Social network data is also used to obtain trends and human behavioral data.
It is clear that this is the risk of writing on a public board but what I am getting at is that Nostr will not prevent certain practices that have been used on facebook.
These are just thoughts out loud.
Sure, it’s definitely a complicated thing to keep balanced and not used for manipulation.
Perhaps it’s moreso *what* is done with the data that’s important? If we follow this thought experiment, what do centralized social networks do with the data they collect on their platforms that ends up being detrimental?
My first thought is that they use it to tweak algorithms of the feed, which can be avoided by pushing nostr clients to not go that route, and leave it to users to determine how they want to filter their feeds.
Yeah, right now the relays are pretty dumb and clients just show what relays provide. I think there’s going to be a need for some better sense of what a relay is doing, how it’s managed, and then what the apps should be requesting / displaying.