As we are concerned about privacy, I am curious just to understand if lemmy can be at some point exploited by someone to profile its users.

  • fubo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Somehow the server has to be able to look up the user’s subscriptions so it knows what posts to show them.

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      1 year ago

      I am mainly thinking about matching navigation history with identifiable information… You are right, It’s a tricky thing…

      I also wonder, if lemmy becomes a thing, with numbers in the same order of magnitude of reddit, if and how gdpr will affect server admins… Having a privacy anonymization tool built in by design might avoid headaches on the long term