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    8 months ago

    It’s not like we’ll not see it coming Once threads.net starts federating with the big instances, it’s all over

    The information that can be gathered and sold is pretty intense, even when your account is on another instance

    • All your posts and comments (this is public information, no cause for alarm)
    • Everything you upvote/downvote
    • Every time you load an image from another instance (link tracking, can probably be correlated with your IP address you signed into facebook with)
    • With enough posts in your feed tracking you, a general picture of your interests and time of day you interact with lemmy will form, which can be sold

  • I think you’re confusing “encrypted in transit” versus “end to end encryption”

    Your email between protonmail and gmail would be encrypted between the servers, but both protonmail and gmail could read your email. OpenPGP makes it so incoming emails are encrypted with your public key, so there’s an extra stage of encryption that only your email client can decipher. OpenPGP therefore has the capacity for end to end encryption