Dropsitenews published a list of websites Facebook uses to train its AI on. Multiple Lemmy instances are on the list as noticed by user BlueAEther
Hexbear is on there too. Also Facebook is very interested in people uploading their massive dongs to lemmynsfw.
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Link to the full leaked list download: Meta leaked list pdf
I think a better reason is the federation only worked one way. Why should we share our content if they’re not sharing theirs? Not that we’d want it.