This is your reminder that if your post is set to "Public", then anyone can and probably will, do anything they want with your posts.
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This is your reminder that if your post is set to "Public", then anyone can and probably will, do anything they want with your posts.
With over 20,000 Fedi instances and 10m accounts, you have no way to tell who or what is consuming your posts and what they could be doing with them.
Consider your public posts as if you just threw them out on the sidewalk for all to see. There's no expectation of privacy on the sidewalk.
See: Awakari for an example of a service that has been on Fedi for over a year now that sells data based on topics discussed.
How do I know they sell it? There's an option on their site that says "Free first 30 days of access", implying that there's a fee after the 30 days.
Do yourself a favor and don't post publicly if you expect privacy.
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This is your reminder that if your post is set to "Public", then anyone can and probably will, do anything they want with your posts.
With over 20,000 Fedi instances and 10m accounts, you have no way to tell who or what is consuming your posts and what they could be doing with them.
Consider your public posts as if you just threw them out on the sidewalk for all to see. There's no expectation of privacy on the sidewalk.
See: Awakari for an example of a service that has been on Fedi for over a year now that sells data based on topics discussed.
How do I know they sell it? There's an option on their site that says "Free first 30 days of access", implying that there's a fee after the 30 days.
Do yourself a favor and don't post publicly if you expect privacy.
I never understood people complaining about Twitter, X, Reddit etc using their data for training - but now spreading their public data to everyone who scrapes it - for even more users to train their AI and even easier. Simply follow profile for profile of a post, thankfully even easier for specific topics on hashtags and briefly described alt images
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B beaware@social.beaware.live shared this topic
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This is your reminder that if your post is set to "Public", then anyone can and probably will, do anything they want with your posts.
With over 20,000 Fedi instances and 10m accounts, you have no way to tell who or what is consuming your posts and what they could be doing with them.
Consider your public posts as if you just threw them out on the sidewalk for all to see. There's no expectation of privacy on the sidewalk.
See: Awakari for an example of a service that has been on Fedi for over a year now that sells data based on topics discussed.
How do I know they sell it? There's an option on their site that says "Free first 30 days of access", implying that there's a fee after the 30 days.
Do yourself a favor and don't post publicly if you expect privacy.
@BeAware alot if people here come from twitter now and they are doing the same and realisticly if mastodon wasnt federated you could still just scoop up as much data.
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@BeAware alot if people here come from twitter now and they are doing the same and realisticly if mastodon wasnt federated you could still just scoop up as much data.
@fox even more data if it wasn't decentralized because I'm sure the ones scraping are only grabbing from the bigger instances.
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This is your reminder that if your post is set to "Public", then anyone can and probably will, do anything they want with your posts.
With over 20,000 Fedi instances and 10m accounts, you have no way to tell who or what is consuming your posts and what they could be doing with them.
Consider your public posts as if you just threw them out on the sidewalk for all to see. There's no expectation of privacy on the sidewalk.
See: Awakari for an example of a service that has been on Fedi for over a year now that sells data based on topics discussed.
How do I know they sell it? There's an option on their site that says "Free first 30 days of access", implying that there's a fee after the 30 days.
Do yourself a favor and don't post publicly if you expect privacy.
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@bill_torvalds idk, ask Meta, x, google, etc.
Lots of people, apparently.
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@bill_torvalds idk, ask Meta, x, google, etc.
Lots of people, apparently.
@BeAware
BTW your post has been consumed by Awakari because you mentioned it
https://reader.awakari.com/v1/sub/rss/Awakari-Mentions
Seems like you forgot to add #nobot to your bio and post -
@BeAware
BTW your post has been consumed by Awakari because you mentioned it
https://reader.awakari.com/v1/sub/rss/Awakari-Mentions
Seems like you forgot to add #nobot to your bio and post@bill_torvalds don't really care. My profile is public, as you can see? ๐คจ
Did you miss the first post while trying to "gotcha"?
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This is your reminder that if your post is set to "Public", then anyone can and probably will, do anything they want with your posts.
With over 20,000 Fedi instances and 10m accounts, you have no way to tell who or what is consuming your posts and what they could be doing with them.
Consider your public posts as if you just threw them out on the sidewalk for all to see. There's no expectation of privacy on the sidewalk.
See: Awakari for an example of a service that has been on Fedi for over a year now that sells data based on topics discussed.
How do I know they sell it? There's an option on their site that says "Free first 30 days of access", implying that there's a fee after the 30 days.
Do yourself a favor and don't post publicly if you expect privacy.
@BeAware @ShaulaEvans I believe that making a post "followers only" restricts this. Any idea if that is accurate?
I've been doing more "followers only" posts lately.
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This is your reminder that if your post is set to "Public", then anyone can and probably will, do anything they want with your posts.
With over 20,000 Fedi instances and 10m accounts, you have no way to tell who or what is consuming your posts and what they could be doing with them.
Consider your public posts as if you just threw them out on the sidewalk for all to see. There's no expectation of privacy on the sidewalk.
See: Awakari for an example of a service that has been on Fedi for over a year now that sells data based on topics discussed.
How do I know they sell it? There's an option on their site that says "Free first 30 days of access", implying that there's a fee after the 30 days.
Do yourself a favor and don't post publicly if you expect privacy.
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@femme_mal well yes. My point was that their probably not the only one here that's doing it and some people think that Fedi is some kinda bastion for privacy where their posts can NEVER be used for nefarious purposes.
Obviously that's not the case.
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@BeAware @ShaulaEvans I believe that making a post "followers only" restricts this. Any idea if that is accurate?
I've been doing more "followers only" posts lately.
@deborahh @ShaulaEvans yea, that's correct. You'd have to be sure that there's nobody following you that could be consuming your posts but you should be way safer with followers only posts.