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,

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,

Could ≠ Should.

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

LWD,

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

LWD,

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,

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,

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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