Yes you will. There is a flavor of private community only accessible to subscribers and subscribers need manual approval from mods (similar to Mastodon’s manual approval for following).
A big thing is that all your voting activity, while we it appears private is actually"broadcast" to all the servers in the fediverse without any actual verification of who runs it. I learned this after setting up an instance and finding out that it’s possible to list all votes on any post, not just activity on my instance. So I’m not sure if privacy is actually a good selling point.
This is a different aspect of privacy here. People otherwise are thinking about E2EE, and verification - not specifically public logs of public activities.
The difference is though that Lemmy instances are less likely to voluntarily give out sensitive information they might have about you, and the federated copies of your account don’t have that data in them anyway. In that sense it is way more private.
The privacy concerns with Reddit don’t lie in the privacy of posted data but in the credentials and account information they have on you, that they are voluntarily giving to DHS to expose anti-ICE users.
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Not much longer, Lemmy 1.0 will have private communities.
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Yes you will. There is a flavor of private community only accessible to subscribers and subscribers need manual approval from mods (similar to Mastodon’s manual approval for following).
Exactly. By the way you can already test it on voyager.lemmy.ml
A big thing is that all your voting activity, while we it appears private is actually"broadcast" to all the servers in the fediverse without any actual verification of who runs it. I learned this after setting up an instance and finding out that it’s possible to list all votes on any post, not just activity on my instance. So I’m not sure if privacy is actually a good selling point.
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Mastodon and similar services also show upvotes “likes” publicly, and I’m sure similar platforms with dislikes would also show them too.
This is a different aspect of privacy here. People otherwise are thinking about E2EE, and verification - not specifically public logs of public activities.
The difference is though that Lemmy instances are less likely to voluntarily give out sensitive information they might have about you, and the federated copies of your account don’t have that data in them anyway. In that sense it is way more private.
The privacy concerns with Reddit don’t lie in the privacy of posted data but in the credentials and account information they have on you, that they are voluntarily giving to DHS to expose anti-ICE users.
@Draconic_NEO @lvxferre
Exactly. The privacy concern in this instance is more about your IP address and less about the info you post.
Well if Privacy is a concern you should also be using Tor as well. It’s free and works anywhere it isn’t blocked so there is no reason not to.
@Draconic_NEO
Right, but baby steps . . .