Granted, I really don’t know much about how all this works, but the thought occurred to me that Lemmy - as wonderfully open as it is, and without any kind of ‘disappearing messages’ or other privacy protecting functionality - is basically a smorgasbord for AI scrapers. Or am I (hopefully) wrong about this?
Nothing is private on Fediverse. Everything is public so that there is maximum interoperability between applications and instances of the same application. I’ve seen people use this image to describe what the “security” is like for DMs -