Although I mirror your general sentiment, who is to say that the admins of lemmy.world, or kbin.social, or lemmy.ml, etc. etc. aren't already doing what which you accuse "media". It's not at all implicit that privacy is guaranteed in this new Fediverse. Corrections welcome.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because it’s open source software and things such as mod logs are public to all.

And it’s not about privacy, it’s about manipulation.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

One of the main benefits of open source software is that you can build it yourself or verify that a built blob is what it claims to be. If you're using someone else's instance then you don't know that they haven't made a change to it that could be doing something malevolent under the covers.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 3 points 10 months ago

Luckily I’m self hosting, but you’re right there is a risk.