Some of the application processes are super invasive Some are hosted in hostile jurisdictions Some are ran by well meaning but incompetent admins Some log everything
Are there any that take privacy and security seriously?
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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 :)
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Its a federated service. Anyone can track all your posts, comments, votes, etc.
There is no such thing as a “privacy respecting” lemmy instance. The admin can promise you that they wont log your IP but thats not worth anything at all, ever, anywhere on the internet.
This is mostly true.
However, it’s worth noting that your home instance is uniquely positioned: it can see not only everything you send out into the fediverse, but also everything you read or subscribe to, so its privacy practices can still matter.
With that in mind, I suggest avoiding instances that run behind Cloudflare, which can see (and even change) every interaction you have with the instance.
You might also want to disable off-site images in your web browser (if you use Lemmy’s web interface) and prefer an instance with a large image cache, because loading images that are hosted on other instances will leak your reading habits to those instances.