I don’t think that all data on Lemmy is available for everybody. As far as I know all private messages between users are only visible to the involved users and (as there is no end 2 end encryption) the technical administrators of both instances involved. Same with user passwords, the sign up mail adress etc.
All other content on Lemmy so far is public. As there are no closed communities, I don’t think anybody would expect the information published here to be somewhat private.
On Facebook, Reddit etc. we do have closed communities that may trick users into thinking that whatever they post there is only visible to the target audience while in reality it’s heavily analyzed and sold to third parties.
Please enlighten me, but I currently can’t see any inherent issue that is specific to Lemmy and Mastodon.
No. Nothing about the concept of social media dictates that all data must be available for everybody.
I don’t think that all data on Lemmy is available for everybody. As far as I know all private messages between users are only visible to the involved users and (as there is no end 2 end encryption) the technical administrators of both instances involved. Same with user passwords, the sign up mail adress etc.
All other content on Lemmy so far is public. As there are no closed communities, I don’t think anybody would expect the information published here to be somewhat private.
On Facebook, Reddit etc. we do have closed communities that may trick users into thinking that whatever they post there is only visible to the target audience while in reality it’s heavily analyzed and sold to third parties.
Please enlighten me, but I currently can’t see any inherent issue that is specific to Lemmy and Mastodon.