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[–] [email protected] 125 points 7 months ago (22 children)

Well you shouldn't trust a public, decentralized, open source personally hosted service either.

I don't really know who's hosting the Lemmy or other fediverse services I use and what access they have to the data that we post on there.

Basically, you shouldn't trust any online service with your data and your posts.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or just use e2e encrypted services. They can be trustless and still useful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Depends on how they're implemented. Signal and WhatsApp are e2e encrypted, but they track your phone number, your contacts and IP address. Maybe even metadata

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