TLDR: While Fediverse won’t directly serve you ads, anonymous bad actors other than Meta can save, redistribute, and even dox you for any information you post here. Anything you post here can/will remain forever on some malicious instance that doesn’t honor deletion requests. So be careful!

  • FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
    162·
    1 year ago

    You should probably stop considering anything you put online to be private…it’s not, ever.

    • Andy@slrpnk.net
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I just consider my record public. My username is my actual name. I don’t say shit I wouldn’t want anyone to know about. Simple.

    • whiskers@lemmy.worldOP
      24·
      1 year ago

      Yes, but there is a reasonable assumption that your pictures will only be viewed by your followers on Instagram. I can’t see myself switching to PixelFed. I’ve completely switched from Reddit and Twitter to Mastodon, Lemmy, as I don’t tend to share my personal information there anyways.

      • axum@kbin.social
        31·
        1 year ago

        reasonable assumption that your pictures will only be viewed by your followers on Instagram.

        It’s not reasonable, as it’s both public and said followers can just re-up the content elsewhere out of your control. Look at any popular account on any platform, and see how often it gets copied/reuploaded elsewhere

        • whiskers@lemmy.worldOP
          21·
          1 year ago

          It is reasonable because I can have a trust basis with my followers who are my friends/family. If a malicious instance host can just use a plugin to view follower only post, that’s not going to be expected by an average user. That’s why I posted in YSK.