So, I’ve been on Lemmy since the great Reddit exodus a couple years ago, and back on Reddit though, there were discussions on Data Poisoning, where since it was nigh unto impossible to keep your data private, people would poison their data with all sorts of extraneous information, so companies couldn’t tell what data was accurate and what wasn’t.
But, here on Lemmy, I haven’t seen any discussions about the topic. Are people still poisoning their data? Why haven’t I seen any discussions about it? Is it still discussed, just not on the instances I’ve seen?
It’s a good idea, since Lemmy and the rest are being searched through by Google and others. However one of the things often discussed is how hard it is to find things on the search engines that have been pulled from Lemmy, so we’re not quite seen yet as a database resource for AI and such. But again, better to start now, as Fediverse places are being mentioned more and more by the mainstream.
The question is, how best to do this, and which data? Just personal, or try to obscure anything you submit in discussion?