• Daelsky@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    49
    ·
    2 days ago

    If an instance becomes oppressive, nothing is stopping you from going to a new one. You can’t do that with Reddit. Let’s say my instance Lemmy.ca becomes awful, I can make a new account on another and still comment on this community. That’s the beauty of the Fediverse.

    • phx@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      2 days 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

      • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        25
        ·
        1 day 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?

        • phx@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          20 hours ago

          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?

      • Christian@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        1 day 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.

        • phx@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          20 hours ago

          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