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Lemmy and privacy issues (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by NicestDicerest@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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So. I thought about the potential of bad actors sniffing on lemmy data. In theory, you'ld have to trust your lemmy-instance hosted to not be a bad actor and every single server they federated with. That means, it should be really - REALLY - easy for a bad actor of even a nation state actor to set up an instance and just wait for the data of users to pour in.

Theoretically they could see all the posts you ever made, and, every post you upvoted. Which also gives clues on: When are you active, what region are you from, what you like and dislike (obviously), political views, etc.

I mean - Maybe I'm too suspicious but tbh the more I read into this, the more I get a bad feeling about this...

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[–] beigegull@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Yes, posts you make to public forums are public.

[–] NicestDicerest@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yes - Indeed.

But: Not what I liked or disliked. Every federated server can see that in their logs. Normally this would at least need you to talk to reddit/meta/some other company in order to get a hold of this data, but here literally everyone with basic Linux knowledge can get everyone's data very easy, very quick, and very reliable.

[–] Gush@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

So you're saying you can get my lemmy data easily?

[–] NicestDicerest@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You can literally go and setup your own lemmy instance in less than 10 minutes. Its so well documented that even the least tech savy person should be able to do that with a bit of research.

When you've done that just wait for the data to flow in. And thats it.

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