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Would you share your Fediverse data with researchers?
@heluecht even for academic research?
@evan To use a famous quote: "I have a bad feeling about this".
Every observation influences the object being observed. Knowing that my interactions may be observed and analysed is likely to make me overthink my actions, because I would automatically try to behave in a way that would influence the outcome.
@heluecht last question: have you ever participated as a research subject before in another part of your life?
@evan I regularly take part in opinion polls conducted by opinion research institutes or universities. I have never taken part in any university research where my behaviour has been tracked.
Are you aware of the very strict European data protection laws? (I think they're part of the reason why AP connectivity in Threads is still not available in Europe and why Threads was introduced months later than in the rest of the world).
The data protection laws were introduced a few years ago and were mostly a copy of the German data protection laws, which have always been very strict. Many Germans are very strict with their own data. Yes, many of us share a lot of (personal) data, but many of us don't usually want others to use our own data.