While the admins and donations make it free, I guarantee there's at least a few corporations or government organizations out there scraping the fediverse to gather data. So even though the people hosting it might not have any bad intentions, an open platform like this will still feed the data hungry machine.

Again, I meant for profit companies, like Nintendo.

Volunteer led orgs are different. Particularly those run by socialists.

e: most volunteer/socialist orgs don’t have ‘customers’.