Where's the feel of the old Internet gone, and what sites do you use?
Hey all. Since the Internet has just been boiled down to the main big social media sites, it feels like the magic is gone. Whens the last time someone said to you “hey check out this cool website”? It’s always the same: TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, FB, Reddit, Discord. Forums are basically dead. Chat rooms are dead. Message...
Open source is no guarantee for security or privacy. It is a prerequisit.
Just because software is open source does not mean someone is actually looking at the code. But depending on the software there are incentives to do so. Some people might be technologically interested on the way a software does something and look at the source code for that. Some people might want to check the benignity for...
Reminder to check whether you have old accounts that you might have forgotten about
You might have old accounts especially cloud accounts that are just idling abandoned while still holding personal information. They might have old weak passwords just waiting to get compromised. Same goes for old email addresses that you do not use anymore but are still linked to other accounts. This is a reminder to check...
Shit, it’s good to be alive [credit: FalseKnees.com] (media.kbin.social)
What's your favorite Web 1.0 memory?
Prior to the internet condensing into just 5 or so websites, what do you remember fondling about being online?...
New users; are any of you migrating to matrix/element too? Which rooms?
I’m down for more chat rooms, especially the alive and kicking rooms....
Kiryu is thinking about you (media.kbin.social)
Let's Encrypt privacy concerns for private networks
I vaguely remember reading something about leaking your private network setup if you used Let’s Encrypt to generate your certificates....
Reddit is Dead, long live.. leddi- lemmy?
It really whips the llama’s ass. Post says it all. Foreveralone. Take my upvote. Are we in post-social media yet or what?
What are your favorite FOSS apps?
Kickstarting this community; let’s discuss our favorite apps on Android & iOS.
Kids' books rock (media.kbin.social)
Has anyone heard of freenet? (freenet.org)
I saw a post on r/privacy from the founder, and it caught my attention. What do you guys think of it?
Is it possible to follow Mastodon accounts from Lemmy?
I can see that I can follow Lemmy communities from Mastodon (just tried it out with a handful of communities), but I don’t see a way to have it work the other way....
What's actually going on with GrapheneOS at the moment?
I’ve seen the post saying that the lead developer is stepping down, I’ve seen his accusations of abuse. I’ve seen enormous write-ups which make questionable claims about how he’s the devil himself. I’ve seen a lot of rumour and hearsay, and now I’ve got no idea what to think....
What browser / extensions do you make use of?
For a while now I’ve been quite happy running LibreWolf, with Bitwarden and some other privacy extensions. I’ve also switched over from Google to Kagi as a search engine; doesn’t keep me anonymous, but I do love not being the product for once.
Russia says US hacked thousands of Apple phones in spy plot (www.reuters.com)

We're giving Lemmy a try: Welcome to !privacyguides@lemmy.one (www.reddit.com)
With Reddit’s encroaching IPO and their poorly planned API changes, we need a place to keep up with privacy topics that isn’t tied to an anti-privacy, centralized sinking ship site....
Reddit on the verge of eliminating third-party apps (libreddit.nl)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/411763...
Mullvad VPN: Removing support for forwarded ports (mullvad.net)
Lemmy posts openning links in lemmy's tab is annoying
Hello Every time I hit an interesting post, it opens whatever web page in the same tab lemmy was opened, and thus I loose lemmy....
I am shocked (feddit.de)
people eat dead animals??

modern art (feddit.de)

normal man (feddit.de)

Talk about having a 200ms ping... (lemmy.ml)
