Privacy on Lemmy

3 years ago by brad_long_arms to c/privacy

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I've been sent this article about privacy on Lemmy and I would like to have more opinions about it.

I come from the Matrix world where there is no history deletion neither but at least everything is encrypted.

Can we hope anything about privacy on Lemmy ?
Especially with all the attention it's getting right now.

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makos 1 point 3 years ago

Since Lemmy is free software, can someone just fork it and change it to be more privacy-focused?

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sneakyninjapants 4 points 3 years ago

Someone definitely could, but what privacy-oriented features would even be useful on a social media site, aside from encrypted DM's?

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BombOmOm 2 points 3 years ago

They can; but remember you are posting public information on a public forum. The privacy features are all about what you type or don't type. Never type private information into a public forum.

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Generator 1 point 3 years ago

It can, but without E2EE nothing is private. You can be sure that stays encrypted and only the other person is able to read it.

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post

Don't promote proprietary software

Try to keep things on topic

If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered

Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience

Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)