Just heard of Lemmy today
I would love to leave reddit
Whats most privacy respecting android app for Lemmy ?
I can’t imagine that any app that currently exists gives a shit about exploiting your data. Lemmy is too young for that to really be a problem.
The real problem is that nothing on lemmy is private because of it’s federated design. There have been some discussions the last few weeks talking about this, but just about every interaction you do is broadcasted out to every instance, and its social media so of course anyone can see what you post. Things like viewed posts and saved content should stay on your instances server, but assume every other action is public.
Dont use your real name on the good internet
Agreed. Although The Fediverse also can’t easily be searched via your standard search engines, so finding that public information is harder than on other social media apps (for now…).
This isn’t to say there isn’t a privacy concern using any Fediverse Social media platform. It’s just that there are some inherent design implementations that make it hard for the average person to invade the privacy of a user of the platform.
This is, of course, afaik. Please let me know if I’m mistaken.
Search currently kinda sucks actually inside the fediverse. I tried to find one of those posts before making the comment but gave up because it was worthless.
I’d imagine it’s only a matter of time until someone makes something better, and 3rd parties start mining it. Or we’ll get that nefarious third party with a server just ingesting all our data to sell off.
It can be searched just fine, Googled my tag to see where I get hits, and quite a few are Lemmy comments.
The instance I joined didn’t even require an email at the time. They have a long way to go if they want to be the next Facebook lol
I use Eternity
I would recommend any of the open source apps, my personal recommendation is Eternity.
https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Eternity
You can find it on f-droid.
Voyager is on both platforms, Jebora is only for Android, both are pure open source so you have full privacy and anonymity.
You could use the website in a webbrowser. Then you don’t have to be concerned about app and app provider.
It’s what I’m using. On mobile too.
@Kissaki @TrippingBalls But are there any working?
Any working what?
I’m using the website of my instance. Lemmy instances typically have their own website you can use - which is exactly or slightly modified versions of the interface of the Lemmy project.
If you trust your instance with your account and its associated data surely you trust it’s website.
Open the actual post and you will see various and numerous answers, including mine.
https://lemmy.world/post/8317669
Dunno why you @ me on my comment when I specifically talked about not using an app but the website.
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Edit: down voters care to explain why I’m wrong?
You’d think the lesson would have been learned by hive mind drive-by down votes with Reddit. You always know when somebody (actually) can dispute what you say, because they say it!
I’m a Voyager user since when it was wefwef.
I heard about
boostand it looks promising. It even has a dedicated community on lemmy.https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy
I was a boost user for reddit, and when it finalized for Lemmy I had to “launch the rocket” 🚀 (get it again) I loved it over there and it is getting awesome here, as for privacy, I honestly don’t know, and I know that is probably the worst thing I could say here. I was so angry with reddit about the greed and all it just felt right to keep supporting boost. I am rather noob to the privacy concerns and I am learning.
I use Eternity it’s foss and a fork of infinity for reddit
I feel like I’m on Infinity but was transported to a better version of Reddit.
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Lets up that one and add tor.
On a burner, that I got a homeless guy to buy, in Portugal, which I illegally entered, from Spain, which I also illegally entered.
Finally. I can look at cats and femboys.
😂😂 good one
Liftoff
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Liftoff is pretty decent
it seems like if you are interested in private, Lemmy isn’t really a great place?
It strikes me that the lemiverse is basically self doxximg with no ability to get rid of the data. I mean I don’t really know what gwts logged but it seems like it’s never gone via federation.
There is a big difference between posting in public non confidential stuff and an app tracking all your clicks and likes and device contacts and telemetry
I supposed the topic starter meant the last one
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