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What’s reddit? Is that like a new alternative to Lemmy? ;P
how the hell did this get 51 upvotes
50 people clicked the up arrow below the comment.
While that is one possible reason, lets keep an open mind for any other possible ways that the comment gained votes.
Possibly a north korean bot willingly engaging in destabilyzing westeners fostering reddit circlejerk vapid culture.
You’re almost there in down votes. Good job 🤣
It’s a good thing that free discussion doesn’t equate a mindless popularity contest. Oh wait, on Reddit it does, my bad …
I like how the original OP mention in passing that Reddit is bad for privacy.
Like, no shit? How can a privacy community be even remotedly healthy in such an environment?
It’s like having a club for how to avoid the police within a prison, regulated by the guards.
Reddit was open source until 2017, and one of the founders was Aaron Schwartz. So it didn’t look like that for a long time.
I guess we all know it, since we are interested in Privacy and not clueless enough to be on Reddit (anymore?).
The degeneration from a “safe” place to what it is now is what makes it particoularly egregious a place to avoid for anybody serious about privacy…
2017 was 7 year ago, Aaron died 11 years ago. There are a lot younger users who can’t remember these things.
Let’s see a 20 years old university student was 13 when the source was closed down, I think it’s not easy to find a 13 years old who is familiar with such legal things.
Reddit basically has a completely new userbase. It’s not only by age of user. I don’t think people have really appreciated the rate of attrition has been near total. The old userbase of tech savvy STEM college degree holders have effectively abandoned the platform.
They’ve managed to sell the platform on a whole new set of users. So it looks like the site has kept on plugging along. But really reddit has successfully relaunched itself. Based on the idiosyncratic lingo I see most often. The bulk of users came from Facebook. They don’t know the traditional redditisms so they use vernacular from the platforms they’ve migrated from.
No but it’s much easier to find the 20 years old student interested in privacy that realyze right now that reddit is not open source…
While I hate Reddit isn’t the fediverse basically horrible for privacy? It’s super easy to see everyone’s posts and IP addresses no? I thought anyone could basically download everything with very little effort and do whatever they want with it.
Yep. Still going in a better direction than Reddit though.
Yea, that is a good thing, nobody owns the info like this, it is public domain, as a place like this should be, in my opinion.
If you want private communities, I think matrix spaces are a great independent solution.
OP is the original OP. Probably. Reddit poster’s name is the same as the Lemmy poster’s name.
It was a terrible sub for years much before the apicalypse. It was full of apple fanboys who believed every marketing bullshit.
Wait, what’s wrong with Proton Mail?
They gave meta information like IP to the government in Switzerland, where they are based, after the government forced them to with a court order. Not the encrypted mail, mind you, because they can’t do that, just the additional information they have on a user like email and IP.
Because of that, a lot of redditers on r/privacy think they spy on their users for the US government. It’s a stretch, yes, but you have to remember they take turns using the one brain they collectively have.
Yeah I agree, sounds a bit excessive. If that’s correct, it doesn’t sound like they’re reading your data and at the end of the day they have to comply with things like warrants. Thanks for the clarification.
It is all also very clearly stated in the information they must collect in order to provide their service. There should’ve been no surprises here, as you must assume that scenarios like these will happen eventually.
If all they have on you is your optional backup email and your IP, I think they’re doing pretty well in the no data-collecting part?
Well, you don’t even need to provide an email or phone number when you sign up, so if you access the site via their onion address every time, they would have no information on you at all.
I don’t think OP was trying to say Proton Mail is bad or insecure. Rather the opposite.
I would also like to know, lol.
What’s the background here? Do they censor stuff?
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Mention VPNs are forbidden due to spam and stuff, GrapheneOS mention forbidden because of drama
Defeats the whole purpose of the subreddit, it’s like saying you’re not allowed to talk about yellow in a community about colours…
Only reason I’d recommend signal to anyone is that its one of the few encrypted apps that doesnt have awful onboarding. A boomer can figure it out.
What do you recommend?
If Signal was not simple, my family and friends would likely use Telegram or WhatsApp. Even switching to Signal required a number of (general) newspaper articles criticising the status quo. It’s likely not optimal, but okayish and sharing opinions and holiday impressions feels a bit better.
Switching a service is a slow, difficult process and many contacts will not follow, given they would abandon other contacts among friends, family, parents at school, sports teams, … (now, I’m here, using 4+ solutions).
If training or even curiosity for the technical process is required, very few people will follow. If it takes me (with strong IT background) more than 30 minutes to understand/implement, I may have a decent private solution, but I will feel quite lonely soon.
the other decent options are matrix and simplex chat, and mayyyybe session. matrix seems to have the most users and kick to it right now. out of those options. but yeah youre not gonna get the average tech illiterate person to get on a more complicated alternative to discord, essentially
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Unsurprising behavior from a community where the coolest person is the one who can put on the biggest tin foil hat. I appreciate the privacy community here but I think the concept itself leads to users decrying anything as insecure just because it makes them feel more knowledgeable.
Oh I remember r/privacy, this comment is spot on. You expect something like the Linux communities where it is okay what ever you prefer. But privacy-nerds sometimes goes the spying government/tech-firms rabbit-hole to deep.
Lol brave sucks
Literally the kind of elitist response the OP was lambasting.
No, noobs need to be told what sucks and what doesn’t.
Okay, I’ll have a go, since you’re a noob with people and how they actually learn and behave: Your advice sucks.
What advice
… so what doesn’t? Just saying <thing> sucks without saying why or providing a valid alternative is not helping anyone. Rather say something like
“Brave has done some shady things in the past and is based on chromium which is currently doing its best to kneecap adblockers and other privacy tools. If you want a good private browser, you might want to use librewolf instead”.
It does, but it’s a step in the right direction.
I’m as guilty as anyone for allowing pursuit of perfection be the enemy of good.
How is allowing crypto mining in your browser or hijacking affiliate links good for privacy?
Brave has a built-in adblocker and is not Chrome. If a user is able to make the switch to Brave, they might find it easier when they try to switch to something better like Librewolf or Firefox.
Why would switching browsers twice make it any easier?
Because once you learn how to switch browsers once, you already know what the process of changing browsers looks like and what to expect, removing the barriers if you switch again.
It’s like switching from Windows to Ubuntu. Sure, Ubuntu is not perfect, but by installing Ubuntu, you have already learned the process of installing a linux distro and what to expect if you decide to install a different one.
Except brave doesn’t teach them how to block ads or mine crypto so I still fail to see how if they were to switch to brave it would make their switch to a sane browser less painful. They just have to switch twice instead of once.
By having a browser that behaves 99% like the one they used for years before. Not everyone wants to spend time learning new tools and how said tools work, if a similar better tool exists, and is switched to, that’s alredy better than sticking with Ghrome
I ditched reddit, and what’s being described in this thread is largely part if why I left. I won’t go back.
“Welcome to Reddit! A community where you can determine what the mood and biases of the mod(s) are so you can safely post without getting banned or comments deleted.”
proton is literally cia. they are modern cryptoAG
proton is literally cia. they are modern cryptoAG
[citation needed]
I’m not saying that it’s BS. I’m asking as someone who’s on the brink of dropping 300€ on a year of “proton family”. I’d like more than an unsubstantiated “they’re crap” claim before making my decision.
I’m kind of interested on this as well. I started using proton a few months ago when my ISP stopped supporting mailservers on consumer contracts.
Should I find something else?
That’s a bold claim, I’m gonna need a proper source to believe you
