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  • It is unfortunate, buy we are giving our data freely, as we did on Spezzit. IMHO it would be great to block efforts to monetize Lemmy by ai, but that is not what we signed up for.

    Lemmy is neither private, nor closed. It’s just the way it works.

    Contributing in an open forum means the data will get harvested. If it closed there will be fewer views, open is what we have now.

    Companies will train on what we post, we are not giving that (directly) to a centralized service though. To me that compromise is enough.










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    5 months ago

    I won’t argue one way or another. The argument against f-droid is this

    ‘The issue with F-Droid is that all apps are signed by the same party (F-Droid) which is also not the developer. You’re now adding another party you’ll have to trust since you still have to trust the developer anyway, which isn’t ideal: the fewer parties, the better.’

    https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/

    There are other examples too, and Divestos (which I have a lot of respect for) maintains their own repo.

    So just because each follows their own standards does not disqualify one from another in my mind.

    I have shifted to Obtanium as my source, a personal choice, and I am happy with it. I get more timely updates direct from the source. The developer could introduce Pixel tracking, or Google AdMob, but i scan all installs with App Manager, and RethinkDNS is set to block those anyway.