Hildegarde@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@kbin.social•So I'm definitely missing something with Lemmy...I've tried creating an account on their site, but it's never gone through. I know we get the same stuff on kbin as we do on Lemmy, but I was curious to
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1 year agoManually search for the username you’re trying to register. Verify that the name is unused before registering.
There’s plenty of user facing error messages that don’t yet exist. I’ve heard this one of them. Lemmy is alpha software at this point. There’s a lot of work yet to be done.
So what would stop them from shadow profiling you by scraping content, or using a different domain? Most lemmy instances are configured to federate with a blocklist, meaning any unblocked instance can download data. Facebook can just make an instance under a different domain and download the data that way. Or they can just scrape user data from the web facing interface.
Posts and comments on lemmy are public. If facebook wants your publicly accessible data from the fediverse, de-federating from threads isn’t going to stop them.