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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Information is cached on servers in the fediverse through connections. You can't just make an empty server and harvest all of the data. Now if you unleash millions of accounts on the Fediverse like threads is doing, then you have access to everything.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)