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.
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- 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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Public forums aren’t private, no.
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/146804y/when_leaving_reddit_dont_jump_from_the_frying_pan/
It doesnt collect metadata and doesnt have ads. Every server needs donations to stay alive! But its a social media, so its Google Bots and ChatGPT everywhere
Lemmy actually collects a ton of metadata and data, and makes it really easy for third party ad and AI companies (and everybody) to scrape.
What metadata is that? Sorry never used a browser console before haha
Do you remember all the stuff Reddit said they didn’t want to be freely accessible to AI companies? Basically, that stuff.
They exaggerated the danger, but not the content AFAIK
Everybody? I don’t know how to scrape. Teach me how to “scrape.” What am I missing out on?
In a desktop browser? You can open up the developer tools, go to the network tab, reload a page, right click a network request that looks interesting (like one that gets user posts), copy the fetch request to the clipboard, go to the debugger tab, paste the fetch request there, and jiggle around a couple of variables if you feel like it.
(Or just start your own instance and wait for the data to pour in.)
Obviously I was being hyperbolic (not everyone on Earth can even breathe without assistance) but hopefully you get my point.
No, Lemmy is social media
No, Lemmy is a social network, and therefore not private. What Lemmy is is decentralized. So one entity can’t take down the entire network or control who does and does not have access.
This, social networks are not private and users should account for that and act accordingly.
I committed to lemmy during the reddit protests and am trying to stick to my word, the lack of quality niche communities is still the hardest adjustment.