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Other reddit users are leaving reddit and I am also one of them I came from Reddit I think Lemmy is a perfect alternative for those who value privacy or don't like to be sold and bought by big tech companies such as Google.

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Be careful when describing Lemmy as a "privacy valuing" service.

Your personal identity privacy is improved, yes, as there are no corporations to actively sell this data... but your identity (the email and info you signed up with) is at the whims of the admins of whatever instance you signed up for, and hoping their opsec is good.

The privacy of your content does not exist at all. Anything you post including direct messages is blasted out across the entire fediverse to ALL federated servers, where you have NO control who is downloading and storing it.

You should treat Lemmy like it is a early 2000s forum site, where you should feel comfortable saying what you like, but never use anything personally identifying anywhere on your profile (including a personal email during sign up), never share anything personal in DM's, and consider a proxy/VPN to further obscure your ID from instance admins.

[–] wolfylow@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I’ve really enjoyed my time on Lemmy - I left Reddit after the third party API fiasco. Having said that, Lemmy’s still super quiet sometimes, but I feel my voice is more heard by the people who are here.

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The quietness reminds me at there is no algo milking me behind the scene for more eye ball time

[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Biiiiiiig facts, retraining your brain to stop expecting to be fed by an algorithm is definitely a benefit of being here that most probably don't notice or appreciate

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Class of 23' represeeeent. I feel like we were still the biggest batch so far, no?

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 6 days ago

At least we were for a long time. User churn combined with steady growth recently might have changed that at this point though, not sure.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

Definitely

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

i got totally banned from the site, my last account was shadowbanned for a comment removal, many others had the same issue, on thier 5+year old account.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I like it here too, but I'm not sure why you think there's a level of privacy?

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 3 points 6 days ago

They're keeping their punctuation marks private.

[–] azha@lemm.ee -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Cuz its open source?

[–] FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It doesn't give privacy by itself. It gives us the ability to ensure the software we run isn't enshittified. We still have to trust the site administrators not to be douche-bags. Also nothing stopping 3rd parties from scanning the site and taking information about you that way. Lemmy/Mastodon are still the better alternative, but anything on the internet is by design not private.

[–] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's also worth pointing out that your upvotes are public here (using something like kbin/mbin to view a lemmy instance). Downvotes could also be seen if some other instance connects to your instance and decides to display downvote information.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I believe you can get even more nuanced within piefed, so you can better see accounts that ONLY downvote and/or are very new. They also allow:

Its pretty neat!

[–] azha@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Thanks for the clarify

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 7 points 6 days ago

What privacy? The Fediverse runs on an open protocol. Everything you say and do is transmitted to the world. If you're posting here your data isn't being bought and sold by big tech, it's being given to them.

This isn't to say that the Fediverse is a bad place or anything, just pointing out one of the tradeoffs in how it works. It's not under any one organization's control but there's consequences from that.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 2 points 5 days ago

This article is from over a year ago? Is this a bot post or something?

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 days ago

The phrasing by Google and reddit in this article makes me want to vomit. Thank God I'm out of there.