Other reddit users are leaving reddit and I am also one of them I came from Reddit I think Lemmy is a perfect alternative for those who value privacy or don’t like to be sold and bought by big tech companies such as Google.
Other reddit users are leaving reddit and I am also one of them I came from Reddit I think Lemmy is a perfect alternative for those who value privacy or don’t like to be sold and bought by big tech companies such as Google.
Be careful when describing Lemmy as a “privacy valuing” service.
Your personal identity privacy is improved, yes, as there are no corporations to actively sell this data… but your identity (the email and info you signed up with) is at the whims of the admins of whatever instance you signed up for, and hoping their opsec is good.
The privacy of your content does not exist at all. Anything you post including direct messages is blasted out across the entire fediverse to ALL federated servers, where you have NO control who is downloading and storing it.
You should treat Lemmy like it is a early 2000s forum site, where you should feel comfortable saying what you like, but never use anything personally identifying anywhere on your profile (including a personal email during sign up), never share anything personal in DM’s, and consider a proxy/VPN to further obscure your ID from instance admins.