• phx@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    On the other hand, harvesting that sort of data is as simple as creating an instance and Federating with whatever sub you want to spy on

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      19 hours ago

      whatever sub you want to spy on

      Is it really considered spying if the sub is pretty much shouting the information freely to whoever wants to request it?

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        If I post to a public website in a plaintext protocol and my ISP also intercepts+logs that transmission, is it spying since the post was public anyhow?

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      So keep that in mind when interacting with the fediverse

      These are public forums, it’s almost the point for things to be public. You could argue that votes shouldn’t be part of it, but ultimately due to the decentralized nature they must be communicated to all servers

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      14 hours ago

      I mean any organization that’s a risk to use my data maliciously is one that can afford buying it, so I actually prefer this to my data being equally easy to access but reddit gets paid for it.

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        My comment isn’t too say that Reddit is good, but rather that we might be able to do things on Lemmy a bit better for user safety/privacy. Aggregating upvotes to an origin seems good to me