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Granted, I really don't know much about how all this works, but the thought occurred to me that Lemmy - as wonderfully open as it is, and without any kind of 'disappearing messages' or other privacy protecting functionality - is basically a smorgasbord for AI scrapers. Or am I (hopefully) wrong about this?

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[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

It's an accurate statement, although most if not all public forums are. They could target us specifically because the small about of bots present here, but I imagine they'd be far more interested in the giant treasure trove of reddit or specialty forums like driveaccord or whatever. Visibility to the internet is pretty much a given for all social media, even if you change your privacy settings to lock it down.