There's no one Lemmy instance, or Mastodon instance. You could use any server, or even selfhost your own, if you wanted to, and have pretty much the same potential for reach.

That's all anyone needs to know about the Fediverse.

The hard thing is authenticity. Particularly for public figures, celebrities, social media personalities, businesses, etc. People who want or need an online personality that corresponds to their real one. I really don't know what the method is for "proving" yourself on the Fediverse.

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

For me the issue is privacy.

At any point anyone who wants to train an AI (or something else data-scrapey) they can just get the whole of everything ever posted on Lemmy.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

it's not like centralized services in any way prevent this, at best they can make it inconvenient but on the flipside you can be 100% certain they are themselves selling off all your data and doing so with your permission (you did real the TOS right?)

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Depends on a few things. Instance admin can rate limit requests. Pretty easy to identify a bot that's scraping traffic.

That's also one thing I try not to worry about. I don't generally say anything online I wouldn't feel comfortable saying on a soapbox in town square (generalized anxiety disorder aside). As a nerdy 90s kid, I learned anything you put on the public internet is public domain unless stated otherwise, and will probably exist forever (if only I could remember any of my GeoCities addresses).

[–] SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I really don't know what the method is for "proving" yourself on the Fediverse.

Isn’t it as simple as posting a photo of oneself holding a sign with your username/instance?

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

With how good image generators are getting these days...