marco on Nostr: I think both should be included but, in a sense, data is novel and everyone is a ...

I think both should be included but, in a sense, data is novel and everyone is a potential seller.

Every person with a digital device produces data every day just by using the device (basically free). That data is valuable and all we do with it is let everyone else collect them, aggregate them, study them and give them back or sell them back to us in the form of a product. If those data were saved and accumulated by the users in a private database/relay and the users had a potential to sell them directly, then perhaps also the average person will have an incentive to care about their data and consider how it is used by others. Also, reading the analysis of your own data tells a lot about you and it’s fascinating. I don’t quite like how data are managed and used currently and how we generally perceived them, this could change it, or at least I hope it can