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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 7 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.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 11 points 7 months ago

Let’s say we create a new Lemmy server, for the purpose of illegally datamining users data. What data can we get?

Public up/down votes
Public messages posted in communities.
DMs if send to a user on our Lemmy server.
??

Do we have the users IP? Email? Browser fingerprint? Can we use cookies to track the user?

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