LWD

LWD, 8 months ago

This sounds like Exodus but Exodus is made for apps not websites. Apps are easier because they tend to list all that stuff up front.

LWD, 8 months ago

Well, not exactly.

Reddit	Lemmy
Content is public	Content is public
API access is limited	API access is limitless
Vote data is inaccessible	Vote data is accessible
No email needed	Email or something else often required
One privacy policy	Basically no privacy policy

LWD, 8 months ago

Could ≠ Should.

Smarter defaults should be encouraged by products that are made for consumers, not corporations

LWD, 8 months ago

It’s no required, but if a server is misbehaving, people could notice and those servers could be defederated. By default, deletions are federated.

LWD, 8 months ago

There’s a grim tragedy in how many people in this comment section have either succumbed to defeat or actively seek to advocate against privacy.

The comments can mostly be boiled down to:

• My data is online already, and I give up
• Your data is online already, and you don’t deserve control over it
• I have nothing to hide and nothing to fear (and you should too)

You will find Fediverse types are far more cynical and antagonistic to privacy than people on other platforms.

LWD, 8 months ago

Can you elaborate on what being “an open forum” means?

LWD, 8 months ago

So regarding an open, public digital space like Twitter, how do you feel about people having the ability to lock their accounts and instantly hide all their tweets from the public?

Mastodon doesn’t have that, but it could.

My reaction to adding something like that will always be “that would be rad” regardless of previous assumptions about how public an app should be, or truisms like “the Internet is forever”, because I believe strongly that trying to fix issues is better than letting them languish unchecked.

LWD, 8 months ago

A lot of Lemmy adopters joined with rose tinted glasses, and came with a lot of good ideas, like getting data out of the hands of big companies, making it easy to access it (as Reddit locked down APIs), etc. Which is all good, but a subset of them believe “not officially belonging to one company” is good enough. As for how your data is handled online, a subset of them believe nothing can be improved, and a subset believes it shouldn’t be improved because your data shouldn’t belong to you at all.

And Lemmy is made up of all sorts, so there’s overlap between Reddit refugees and diehard fans. That interaction is a lot more implicit here, but the friction is a lot more visible on sites like Mastodon where similar privacy discussions have been happening.

LWD, 8 months ago

I like that there is no “private” accounts. This is a feature not a bug.

I’m not trying to argue against privacy…

I appreciate your honesty but this seems to conflict

LWD, 8 months ago

Choosing who to share your data with has been considered a privacy setting since the inception of Facebook and the subsequent erosion of those same settings.

For example, privacy settings on Facebook are available to all registered users: they can block certain individuals from seeing their profile, they can choose their “friends”, and they can limit who has access to their pictures and videos.

LWD, 10 months ago

You cannot log in to a Lemmy server from an account hosted on Mastodon. You need to make a Lemmy account to do that.

Otherwise, you can follow Lemmy accounts and rooms from Mastodon, but it will be very janky.

Edit: down voters care to explain why I’m wrong?

LWD, 10 months ago

Brave also constantly bloats up their browser with privacy-invasive crap and ads for paid products (both theirs and third parties’), right out of the box. That’s why Brave sucks.