LWD

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Privacy Concerns on Lemmy: A Call for More User Control (github.com)

I’ve been grappling with a concern that I believe many of us share: the lack of privacy controls on Lemmy. As it stands, our profiles are public, and all our posts and comments are visible to anyone who cares to look. I don’t even care about privacy all that much, but this level of transparency feels to me akin to sharing my...

LWD,

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,

Could ≠ Should.

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

LWD,

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,

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

LWD,

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,

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,

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,

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?

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    LWD,

    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.

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