Stumbled across this screenshot. Now, instead of judging people for yourself, the computer can do it for you!!! This will in no way be used negatively by Reddit nor people who are arguing with each other. Original post is here, if anyone still has Reddit maybe go spread the good word of Lemmy and Piefed to these users :P
I am thankful for the fediverse and hope this never finds its way over here.
Honestly the fediverse is already a bit of a privacy nightmare, and people refuse to take it seriously. Our version of this horror will include your comments and voting activity and likely a bunch of other telemetry which isn’t public on reddit. Oh and it won’t just be a single “official” AI agent, it will be dozens of them from every corporate or government which wants to build a user database and keep it around forever.
We could bake real privacy protection into our fediverse apps, but the admins and devs seem to have completely punted on this.
it’s not a “privacy nightmare” as much as just entirely public and transparent. As long as you’re aware of this when posting, then I don’t really have a problem with it.
I mean… The fediverse was never tought to be extremely private, which is ok-ish, we want a social network free from corporations and then some.
It could have better privacy? Sure, but it’s meant to be open and public, if someone is stupid enough to post their personal data or something that could be tracked back to them, then they would do it on any other network too and there’s no way to prevent that.
If someone needs some sort of private social network and away from the eyes of the public and bots… Then make a forum or some obscure IRC server.
Unfortunately, you know it will. If it can be done, someone will do it.
Sure, but one instance making something stupid doesn’t mean all or most will. The decentralizing part has its advantages and disadvantages. Not being owned by a single corporation with stock holders is definitely the main advantage.
It would be literally about 3 hours of coding for someone to make one of those, and another few days to feed the fediverse into it.
Jokes on you I vibe coded this and it took me 5m /s