Though Lemmy and Mastodon are public sites, and their structures are open-source I guess? (I’m not a programmer/coder), can they really dodge the ability of AI s to collect/track any data everytime they search everywhere on Internet?
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I agree with the privacy thing. I‘m still not gonna support meta in any way shape or form. If they want to take my data, be my guest but I‘m not waiting for them to push ads down my throat.
What are you wanting to protect? I think you should hold a bit of anonymity overall to where it doesn’t matter a whole lot. The thrill of these platforms are the more anonymous characters willing to share what’s on their mind without huge out-lash/cancelling in my opinion.
you can try and hold on to this ‘light anonymity’ as long as you want, but i feel the longer we all spend in the public fediverse, the easier it will be to piece together our content->id by fingerprinting… should someone decide they really want to do that.
ive kind of taken a more public approach…no, im not blathering my personal info about… but i try not to say or do anything i wouldnt say or do to that person in public on the street in front of my house.
Just change accounts often, don’t build up a big persona fingerprint.
Going against that last part and diving into what’s really on your brain is what I’m saying sets these platforms apart. Aside from the typical bigotry spewing characters that come with it.
i spose. ive had some great conversations with people in random forums across the internet for 30 years… the platform seems almost irrelevant in my memory, but posts are sticky. everyone knows those things can be hard to remove. i dont think the fediverse will change that.
another option for more easily anonymous, ephemeral, say-anything kinda of environment… check IRC. ticks a lot of those boxes
True, IRC probably birthed most of my feelings in this regard. Formed a tight knit community and learned a lot of personal stuff on there as well though.
Is there a way to protect data/user contents in Lemmy/Mastodon against now rapidly rising AI s?
yes:
Don’t publish it there. It’s that simple.
They’re a lot more resistant to it than the centralized softwares.
Stuff you post here has some small chance of remaining un-stored-forever. Obviously people can read it and store it, but it’s not systematically indexed and processed like Facebook Reddit etc. Bots go around indexing the big instances, and it’s fairly likely that they’ll hold onto the data. Aside from that it doesn’t get “centralized” anywhere. It might not be a bad idea to delete your comments after a week or two if you care about long term privacy, not that that’s bulletproof, but not a bad idea.
Voting, weirdly enough, is basically public. If you’re upvoting or downvoting things, more or less anyone on the network who’s tech savvy can dig out the information of who voted on what. Subscriptions are also basically public.
“Reading” actions you take on Lemmy sites – searches or viewing things – is probably completely private. The only people who can see it are the individual instance operators, and it’s legitimately unlikely that they’ll ever look at it, much less hold onto the data once the logs get rotated or do anything with it aside from delete it.
So the TL;DR is it’s way better here (mostly because the servers are privately operated by people who at worst, don’t give a shit what you’re doing, and at best would actively want to defend your privacy most likely).
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