I'd argue the fediverse is probably not the ideal place for a privacy focused audience. There is no privacy here, only illusions of it. I can easily see who upvoted this post for example.

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

I mean, social media is inherently not private, everything you do is public; even votes (though some software supports private voting)

But if you're tracking, datamining, or selling my data then there's the problem.

[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 7 points 6 months ago (6 children)

But if you're tracking, datamining, or selling my data then there's the problem.

And that's easier on the fediverse than any other social media platform. It's the downside of the federation aspect. Lemmy doesn't need to have this stuff built in, anyone can just track and datamine and sell data as they please from anywhere. And I think it's foolish to think Meta at least isn't already doing that, considering they are well aware of the fediverse and how it works. But others are probably already on it too.

[–] kernelle@0d.gs 14 points 6 months ago

And that's easier on the fediverse than any other social media platform

This seems to be a big misunderstanding, if we're talking votes and participation then you are right, but participating data is but a fraction of the data collected by all other forms of social media. Websites can track:

Login and usage times
Ip addresses
Every single action that is made, clicked, viewed, etc

And with apps they track

Notification data
Local network
User behaviour
User engagement
And depending on the given permissions much more

I own my instance, therefore I own the all of the data that could be tracked. Yes my participation is synced with the entire Fediverse, but nothing about my usage and behaviour is.

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