• phx@lemmy.ca
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    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
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      2 days 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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        21 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?

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      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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        21 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