That is very true, but I have a little more trust in this random dude’s server where he gets access to what? He sees my IP address? Than a corp that collects an unnecessary amount of user info for the sole purpose of keeping you locked into their apps with little disregard for health. While also pimping your info out to any persons with $2 to their name.

[–] ashok36@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any random person is at least a hundred times more ethical than mark Zuckerberg.

[–] emperorbenguin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You overestimate the ethics of random human beings.

Atleast zuck is beholden to pretend to be ethical.

[–] dustojnikhummer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I wouldn't take on hosting a public instance, especially in EU, as it comes with all sorts of legal shite

[–] brain_pan@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

tbf, that's every social network isn't it?

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

Those are existing Instagram accounts.

[–] rarely@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

What they don’t know will hurt them, sadly.

[–] straF@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Which is why we should federate. People have the choice to use a low availability “private” server hosted by amateurs on lemmy or use something secure and distributed that works 100%.

A little warning: the site owners on lemmy could be doing many malicious things. The simplest is the ability to drop trackers in the sites header section. However they could have dns based trackers that are invisible to end users. And thats just tracking so far. The only reason we know facebook is a slime bag is years and years of leaks.