With FB and every other instance. Are you vetting who has controlling stake in every instance you federate with?
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Yoz@lemmy.world 11 months agoYour IP, comments, username , liked post, disliked post and other identifiers will be shared with facebook.
misk@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
dan@upvote.au 11 months ago
You do realise that your account on here is public, right? Anyone can collect data like comments, and it’s likely already being used to train AI models just like Reddit data was.
The only way to avoid data being sent to other servers is by having a private account and never interacting with content from other servers. I don’t think it’s even possible to have a private Lemmy account.
Yoz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So by your logic, you just want to hand out everything to Facebook on a golden platter. Let them scrape the data if they want but handing out willingly is like smoking cigarette only to get cancer.
dan@upvote.au 11 months ago
The data is already handed out willingly. Anyone can write code that federates with a Lemmy instance using the ActivityPub protocol, subscribe, and receive a feed of all posts and comments. The instance you’re on federates with around 5850 servers: lemmy.world/instances. Do you really think the admins have verified every one of them to ensure they’re legit?
Yoz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I understand but the point that I am trying to make is Facebook is a data harvesting company and already got tools and algorithms in place. They can actually do some real damage when compared to a small company or a college student trying to scrape data for a project. Facebook isn’t know for helping people and making a better change so why risk it?
Korne127@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Defederating doesn’t stop that, it just stops that their IP gets shared with us.