So, I’ve been on Lemmy since the great Reddit exodus a couple years ago, and back on Reddit though, there were discussions on Data Poisoning, where since it was nigh unto impossible to keep your data private, people would poison their data with all sorts of extraneous information, so companies couldn’t tell what data was accurate and what wasn’t.
But, here on Lemmy, I haven’t seen any discussions about the topic. Are people still poisoning their data? Why haven’t I seen any discussions about it? Is it still discussed, just not on the instances I’ve seen?
I wonder if it’s possible to introduce errors into post as they age, such that the older they are the more semi nonsense they contain.
That takes way more CPU and RAM resources that most Lemmy/PieFed hosts dont care to purchase for something that could be trivially done by the individual user.
That makes sense. Your right the instances are often surviving off of donated time and cash.