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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Absolutely, though to be fair I trust the anonymous random people running the thousands of fediverse instances and communities far less than a legitimate, traceable company that gets third party audited and has to, at least, follow national laws.

I don't love Reddit's owners obviously, but yeah. When it comes to privacy, I don't have any misconceptions about Lemmy being private in the least. Unfortunately :-(

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The difference is advertising. Lemmy has no incentive to sell you out. A company like reddit will squeeze every legal penny out of your personal info and then some more illegally if they think they can get away with it.

[–] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That is unless the instance owners enters into an advertising deal with a company.

To keep the instance "afloat"

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

The US has zero privacy laws and, as far as I know, Reddit follows zero audit frameworks (eg SOC 2). Additionally, Reddit currently does not follow its legal burden under state laws.

I’m not saying your mistrust of the fediverse is wrong. I am saying your trust of corporations is completely unfounded and very naive. Trusting the US to do anything is equally naive (see Yahoo, Experian, and multiple alphabet agencies).