Reddit has the disadvantage of being one central place and easy target for data mining.
Lemmy and other federated services send data from a home server out to any other server that requests it. So this comment of mine will live on my home server, your home server, and any other server that subscribes to this community. This means:
Now there are many targets to data mine.
not every server will be as well protected against data mining
if you delete your comments, there is no guarantee all servers will receive that deletion.
nothing is stopping a data miner from creating their own server and mining the data that other servers willingly give to them.
At the end of the day, any data you send and post online is going to be potentially mined if it isn’t encrypted with only intended recipients having the key
Id argue data mining has more risk than reddit.
Reddit has the disadvantage of being one central place and easy target for data mining.
Lemmy and other federated services send data from a home server out to any other server that requests it. So this comment of mine will live on my home server, your home server, and any other server that subscribes to this community. This means:
At the end of the day, any data you send and post online is going to be potentially mined if it isn’t encrypted with only intended recipients having the key