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[–] [email protected] 129 points 3 months ago (32 children)

I don’t know why people keep attributing privacy to Lemmy when ActivityPub is anything but.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That was what I was going to say.

That said, if someone detects some sort of data-mining plagiarism bot sucking down everything on an instance, it can be defederated very quickly.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

New instances basically suck down everything as the most normal use case. That's what activitypub is for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

There is script that marks entire fediverse for backfilling

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Why would such a bot need to be on a new instance?

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