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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

Well nothing is private on lemmy. Or piefed. And it's pretty confusing for normies, more so than email. I see a lot of similarities.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

Privacy is not a binary concept. Lots and lots of stuff is private that isn't on other platforms. Email only isn't confusing for normies because they learned how to use it.

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

Kinda hard to have anything private here without end to end encryption. You COULD use GPG in PMs, but then people have been encrypting their email for decades too.

And with email you don't generally have to keep up with instance politics to know where to sign up to be able to email the people you want to email. So I'd still say email is simpler to use. Maybe not simpler underneath on a technical level, but that doesn't matter to the end user.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 2 days ago (1 child)

Kinda hard to have anything private here without end to end encryption.

Not hard at all. It's as simple as not collecting information that isn't strictly necessary to run the service.

And with email you don't generally have to keep up with instance politics

Dont have to do that here either.

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

Not hard at all. It’s as simple as not collecting information that isn’t strictly necessary to run the service.

Only guaranteed if you run your own instance

Dont have to do that here either.

Yeah, there's this thing called defederation. You could lose access to communities you've been actively posting in, etc.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 point 2 days ago

Only guaranteed if you run your own instance

Fair.

there's this thing called defederation

You think email doesn't have defederation?

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