Reddit said no API changes and then they change the API, Facebook said they secure our data, and then the Cambridge analytics scandal came to light, Equifax told us that they could be trusted with our most personal credit information and they had a huge data breach.

The fediverse is going to be new to a lot of people, such as myself, who don’t yet fully understand the ins and outs of how it works. It’s my understanding that it’s open source, but I unfortunately don’t have the competencies to review code and see where every piece of data is going and what is actually logged. I have heard of some websites being transparent with the data that’s logged, but there’s no guarantee that they’re telling the whole story.

All that being said, I’m always happy when there’s a decentralized version of a service that people can use as an alternative.

[–] spiderman@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

It’s my understanding that it’s open source, but I unfortunately don’t have the competencies to review code and see where every piece of data is going and what is actually logged.

I am a beginner software engineer and I kinda have no clue about many parts of the source code too, but one thing I could notice is that there are lot's of people that are actively contributing to the source code. I hope if lemmy tries something funny, the open source contributers would be the first people to call it out.