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Why. You were off to a great start.
I'm one of those neckbeards and web services should be free, as in a social service. So should potable drinking water.
Paying for a social service with money voluntarily or with your own data is not a really a choice between providers, it's an admission that we should, in fact, all remain essentially cattle.
Hang on, if a social service doesn’t get paid for how does it exist?
I too was one of those neckbeards, so I use the term with love. :)
I certainly think we should voluntarily create some crowd-funded free-to-use services like the fediverse. But we can’t pretend that commerce doesn’t exist.
People are going to try to make money by hosting stuff online and enticing people to go there and use it. I would prefer if those people made money by charging admission instead of by collecting and selling data.