Given the amount of radical leftists using Lemmy, what’s the risk that certain intelligence agencies create nice apps for Lemmy and put them on the app store to gather data on leftists?
It would be fairly cheap to do so.
I was looking for apps earlier today and noticed there’s a bunch of new android apps for Lemmy and this thought occurred to me.
I would say expect zero privacy anywhere in the fediverse.
If you need to converse privately you should PGP your message first (but not in Comments of course, that would be obnoxious)
Things you post from your own or other instances get copied out across all the federated servers. Being run by volunteers, you KNOW some of them won’t have the greatest security.
But no matter, simply leave nothing private here.