They don’t need to scrape Lemmy. They just need a federated instance and then they have literally everything you post delivered to them as part of the way Lemmy is designed.
Please understand literally nothing on Lemmy is private.
Put a public pgp key in your profile bio, then you can actually send true end to end encrypted messages over insecure public channels.
A very similar conversation led to a joke chain of pgp encrypted replies between me and some other rando on Reddit a few years ago. We were both banned.
They don’t need to scrape Lemmy. They just need a federated instance and then they have literally everything you post delivered to them as part of the way Lemmy is designed.
Please understand literally nothing on Lemmy is private.
Not even this super secret messages I’m sending you?
Put a public pgp key in your profile bio, then you can actually send true end to end encrypted messages over insecure public channels.
A very similar conversation led to a joke chain of pgp encrypted replies between me and some other rando on Reddit a few years ago. We were both banned.