In some ways, I trust my data more with a highly scrutinized company such as Meta than a random weirdo spinning up his instance with a home server in his cabinet.
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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 8 months agoYeah I’m in a wait and see with my instance. People act like it’s one and done. When they start they’ll be just another server to me. If they start becoming hostile and everything coming from them it’s terrible then I’ll defederate. Same as any other server.
People are worried about data being misused but, I’m sorry, that’s what happens when we publish to an open protocol. Anyone can use it however they want, and yeah, they’re are scum usage for it
Scrollone@feddit.it 8 months ago
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 8 months ago
That’s what I don’t understand about the pushback. Yes we all want privacy, but Lemmy here and the fediverse is not built around the idea of privacy. It’s literally a protocol that shoots out whatever you type to anyone who wants to listen. You can type on any server and it’s going to end up on any other server. Can’t be mad because someone like Meta is seeing that and going “Hm, we have servers, we could listen to that data.”
CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 8 months ago
neither of you are looking at all the data harvesting that occurs on platforms like Meta and Reddit. Telemetry, keystrokes (not just submitted, but any key typed iincluding backspaced ones), and more, and NONE of that is harvested on this platform.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 8 months ago
That’s why I’m not switching or anything, my user will be on my instance, but if they federate and users true the surveillance instance that’s on them
Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 8 months ago
Agreed. I think Lemmy is more public than Mastodon and co. which do have some privacy settings, but ActivityPub is inherently a public protocol. Appreciate everything you’ve done for Poptalk btw!