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1. Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2019 13:14:10 EDT Don Romano (alt)

   Nothing about the Fediverse prevents the corporate overlord A.I. bots from crawling it and using the data to track us. It doesn't matter if you haven't explicitly revealed your identity. Throw sufficiently powerful analysis tools at an account's post history and you can fingerprint it. Now do that with another account on another site. If the fingerprint is similar, it's probably the same person.

   1. Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2019 13:22:54 EDT Don Romano (alt)

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      Best thing you can do to minimise the risk of that with the tools we have today is to opt out of search engine indexing in your Preferences. Also, decide if letting other people see who follows you and who you follow, because that's also possible to opt out of, and will give the crawlers less data to work with. Finally, you might want to consider if you should set the default privacy level to Followers Only. It might work better on a psychological level to explicitly mark Public posts as such.