King@lemy.lol to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 7 months agoIf Lemmy became popular, what would prevent any three-letter agency from opening a server to get all the user data?message-squaremessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up163arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up152arrow-down1message-squareIf Lemmy became popular, what would prevent any three-letter agency from opening a server to get all the user data?King@lemy.lol to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square53fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareapril@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up62·7 months agoThe data is already public, that’s how ActivityPub works
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·7 months agoYour account details (email, password hash, IP address) are held only on one instance, but yeah, the rest is shared. You don’t even need to set up a server, you can scrape pretty much anything of value. And they already will have done.
The data is already public, that’s how ActivityPub works
Your account details (email, password hash, IP address) are held only on one instance, but yeah, the rest is shared.
You don’t even need to set up a server, you can scrape pretty much anything of value. And they already will have done.