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   BeAware (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 19:59:36 JST BeAware

   This is your reminder that if your post is set to "Public", then anyone can and probably will, do anything they want with your posts.

   With over 20,000 Fedi instances and 10m accounts, you have no way to tell who or what is consuming your posts and what they could be doing with them.

   Consider your public posts as if you just threw them out on the sidewalk for all to see. There's no expectation of privacy on the sidewalk.

   See: Awakari for an example of a service that has been on Fedi for over a year now that sells data based on topics discussed.

   How do I know they sell it? There's an option on their site that says "Free first 30 days of access", implying that there's a fee after the 30 days.

   Do yourself a favor and don't post publicly if you expect privacy.

   #Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Privacy

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     gyptazy (gyptazy@mastodon.gyptazy.com)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 20:09:34 JST gyptazy

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     I never understood people complaining about Twitter, X, Reddit etc using their data for training - but now spreading their public data to everyone who scrapes it - for even more users to train their AI and even easier. Simply follow profile for profile of a post, thankfully even easier for specific topics on hashtags and briefly described alt images

     @BeAware

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     BeAware (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 21:02:06 JST BeAware

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     • Fox Ritch :grenfoxspin:

     @fox even more data if it wasn't decentralized because I'm sure the ones scraping are only grabbing from the bigger instances.

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     Fox Ritch :grenfoxspin: (fox@mastodon.hostnetwork.xyz)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 21:02:07 JST Fox Ritch :grenfoxspin:

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     @BeAware alot if people here come from twitter now and they are doing the same and realisticly if mastodon wasnt federated you could still just scoop up as much data.

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     BeAware (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 22:22:49 JST BeAware

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     • Linus Gates

     @bill_torvalds idk, ask Meta, x, google, etc. 😑

     Lots of people, apparently.

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     Linus Gates (bill_torvalds@toot.community)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 22:22:50 JST Linus Gates

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     @BeAware
     You're wrong, in #Awakari that paid option actually means that you should pay to feed your posts to it. But not to read from it. Who do you think will pay for publicly available posts?

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     BeAware (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 22:28:39 JST BeAware

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     • Linus Gates

     @bill_torvalds don't really care. My profile is public, as you can see? 🤨

     Did you miss the first post while trying to "gotcha"?😂

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     Linus Gates (bill_torvalds@toot.community)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 22:28:40 JST Linus Gates

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     @BeAware
     BTW your post has been consumed by Awakari because you mentioned it :blobcatwinktongue:
     https://reader.awakari.com/v1/sub/rss/Awakari-Mentions
     Seems like you forgot to add #nobot to your bio and post

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     BeAware (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 06:05:24 JST BeAware

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     • Femme Malheureuse

     @femme_mal well yes. My point was that their probably not the only one here that's doing it and some people think that Fedi is some kinda bastion for privacy where their posts can NEVER be used for nefarious purposes.

     Obviously that's not the case.

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     Femme Malheureuse (femme_mal@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 06:05:25 JST Femme Malheureuse

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     @BeAware https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/112649368671185711

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     BeAware (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 06:08:05 JST BeAware

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     • Shaula Evans
     • Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc

     @deborahh @ShaulaEvans yea, that's correct. You'd have to be sure that there's nobody following you that could be consuming your posts but you should be way safer with followers only posts.

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     Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc (deborahh@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 06:08:06 JST Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc

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     • Shaula Evans

     @BeAware @ShaulaEvans I believe that making a post "followers only" restricts this. Any idea if that is accurate?

     I've been doing more "followers only" posts lately.