• SavvyWolf@pawb.social
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    8 months ago

    Weren’t people losing their shit when a certain four letter corporation started reading information from the fediverse?

    I don’t really understand it, public posts are public, and you should assume that anyone you don’t like can read them.

    Worth noting that your IP and password are stored only on your instance, and pms are visible to only the source and destination instance. So that information is as private as stuff like Gmail or Discord.

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      8 months ago

      Without wanting to stir that hornets nest again, it wasn’t so much about that four letter company reading what we wrote on Lemmy that people were concerned about, more that it was inevitable wed end up seeing content from the sort of right wing shitfest accounts like libsoftiktok etc and the so-called minority groups here would be brigaded by masses of these people.

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        8 months ago

        Agreed, and that is a perfectly valid concern. But there were certainly some people that focused a bit much on the “they can read and use machine learning on my posts!” part of things.