• Executive Chimp
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    1 year ago

    As far as I know there’s nothing to stop any given fediverse app being a privacy nightmare. But the fediverse itself isn’t.

    • Leraje@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That’s true, but I would imagine (or hope) that any instance that started running privacy invading algorithms or harvesting data would be defederated by the rest of the fediverse.

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        1 year ago

        I mean the apps rather than the instances. There’s nothing about the fediverse that would stop, say, Jerboa (to pick one at random, I’m sure they’re fine!) from scraping and selling your data.

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          1 year ago

          It helps when apps like Jerboa are open source. The average user may not notice, but anyone can in theory check what their code does and report any violations.