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Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by ruffsl@programming.dev to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[-] books@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

So can Facebook harvest our data even though we aren't on their instance?

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Everyone can "harvest" public data. Defederation doesn't do anything about that.

[-] cerevant@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Facebook can harvest all the data in all the instances while being defederated.

[-] terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.li 8 points 1 year ago

So, hear me out... What if we put a scheme in place where anyone who wanted to use the API had to pay for access? And then we charge like 20x what we should to put them out of business. I am sure that would work out well.

[-] books@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry, should have been more clear. Private data, like os, screen resolution, headphones etc.. basically all that shit we saw in that screenshot a few days ago

[-] cerevant@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

They couldn’t get any of that information through a federated instance. If they federated, you wouldn’t interact with them, your instance would.

[-] books@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Great. Thanks!

[-] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Only way for them to get that data is by you downloading their proprietary app. When it comes to the content you post here its all public and you can't prevent them from seeing it.