I think it's pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.

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[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 11 months ago (14 children)

What public info could they gather? My IP?

[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Well, they could gather that, then skim through your posts, and then look at all the other ways they've gathered your data, like any of the Facebook trackers on various other websites, then create a shadow profile of you with all of the collective sum information they have.

And that's assuming you don't already use Facebook or messenger, in which case they basically have everything anyway.

It also assumes that they haven't purchased any data from data brokers to create these shadow profiles. Having an IP is actually pretty bad, all things considered, when you have a trove of information

[–] infinitepcg@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't make sense for Lemmy (or Mastodon) to send your IP to other instances. Without that IP, all they have is your username. They can't really track you based on just the username.

[–] CertifiedBlackGuy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Fuck, I shouldn't have used my reddit handle.

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