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Out of all things to hate Reddit for, giving data to AI isn’t something fediverse users can really criticize it for, though making money from it perhaps.
Remember: All data in federated platforms is available for free and likely already being compiled into datasets. Don’t be surprised if this post and its comments end up in GPT5 or 6 training data.

Why would you want to block their telemetry?
It is not like they’re using it to serve ads to you, and it should be better for everyone for developers to make decisions based on how users are actually using their app, no?

Might want to clarify: The “model” in this case is not a full model like Stable Diffusion, but rather something used like a patch, more comparable to something like LoRA

I don’t think that anyone would misunderstand anyway, but better safe than sorry

Some things you did not mention that caught my eye, please correct me if I misunderstood how they work:

• No servers, just P2P. Every user doubles as a server to some degree, akin to seeding
• Their one and only method to prevent bots is Proof of Work

…I personally can only really see that as cons,

• waste storage space and bandwidth on other user’s encrypted messages that have nothing to do with you
• waste computing power every time you want to send a message to anyone
  (and I refuse to dismiss those as “negligible”, wasting any of that means wasting energy after all)

Not to mention abuse related issues that come with the “100% Censorship resistance”, from scams and social engineering to abusive texts to illegal content to displeasing images.

I can see an argument for some sorts of communities, but I would never consider that “a good alternative to Twitter/Facebook” in general.
If anything, their explicit, by-design lack of moderation may make it even worse for vulnerable/sensitive groups.

Quoting their FAQ before anyone asks for the source:

(Security > Privacy and Data Security > Where is my data stored?)

Your data is relayed and stored in your friends’ devices and other random devices available in the network. All data is protected by strong cryptography algorithms and can be accessed only with the owner’s secret seed.
(Security > Underlying Technology > On what technology is WireMin built in?)
WireMin users jointly created an open computing platform for messaging and data storage that serves each other within the network for personal communication. WireMin protects the public resource from being abused or attacked by requiring proof-of-work, or PoW, for every message sent and each bit of data stored. A tiny piece of PoW needs to be completed by computing SHA256 hundreds of thousands of times before you can send a message. Such computing tasks can be done in less than a tenth of a second which is a negligible workload for a user device sending messages at human speed. While this introduces a significant effort for an attack to send overwhelming amounts of messages or data, the actual PoW difficulty requirement of a specific message or bit of data is proportional to its size and the duration for which it is to be stored.

Unlike the Fediverse and similar projects, there are no servers nor instances at all. It’s exclusively Peer to Peer.
They explicitly opted to not have any form of moderation, instead just using Proof of Work, which should help reduce spam but doesn’t does much that about offensive content nor trolls.

That is already possible on kbin (browse to kbin.social/d/instance then block there, e.g. https://kbin.social/d/vlemmy.net ), I don’t think that it is supported on Lemmy though.
(Mentioning since this discussion is on kbin, though it seems like you are using lemmy. rip)