You do realise that your account on here is public, right? Anyone can collect data like comments, and it’s likely already being used to train AI models just like Reddit data was.
The only way to avoid data being sent to other servers is by having a private account that can’t be viewed while logged out, and never interacting with content from other servers. I don’t think it’s even possible to have a private Lemmy account.
Can someone ELI5 here. So Lemmy.world is a Reddit like site, Threads is a Twitter like site. What does it mean when they’re federated?
Content and data is shared between instances.
But what does that mean? How would I see content from one on the other?
Have you never talked to someone on #Mastodon yet? They all use ActivityPub as a protocol.
I’m on Mastodon also. But how do they connect?
I told you already.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub
That’s means that I can see your content from lemmy.zip
Your IP, comments, username , liked post, disliked post and other identifiers will be shared with facebook.
With FB and every other instance. Are you vetting who has controlling stake in every instance you federate with?
You do realise that your account on here is public, right? Anyone can collect data like comments, and it’s likely already being used to train AI models just like Reddit data was.
The only way to avoid data being sent to other servers is by having a private account that can’t be viewed while logged out, and never interacting with content from other servers. I don’t think it’s even possible to have a private Lemmy account.