All it takes is some API calls and some simple python scripting and you could data mine a person. Maybe they subconsciously only upvote LGBT posts. Maybe they downvote leftwing posts.

Then, oops, one day they post something that can doxx them and now they’re getting targeted ads or worst case a stalker or someone who wants to get them fired/thrown in jail.

Now imagine a machine learning algorithm or AI has done all the data mining and it took just a couple days to work through all users on lemmy.world.

If there’s any data that could be used to make money someone will eventually try it.

It’s probably a McKinsey playbook getting passed around

If you know plex it’s the same thing just open source.

But they are just video player front ends for your media libray

Dunno how many people will still have machines they haven’t already reimaged laying around.

President Reverend Maynard

Speculation on this graph alone, I would say that students being off/people avoiding family gave the bump in December. And I’d expect another bump in May/June as Summer starts