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Most private app for Lemmy (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Just heard of Lemmy today

I would love to leave reddit

Whats most privacy respecting android app for Lemmy ?

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I can't imagine that any app that currently exists gives a shit about exploiting your data. Lemmy is too young for that to really be a problem.

The real problem is that nothing on lemmy is private because of it's federated design. There have been some discussions the last few weeks talking about this, but just about every interaction you do is broadcasted out to every instance, and its social media so of course anyone can see what you post. Things like viewed posts and saved content should stay on your instances server, but assume every other action is public.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Dont use your real name on the good internet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Agreed. Although The Fediverse also can't easily be searched via your standard search engines, so finding that public information is harder than on other social media apps (for now...).

This isn't to say there isn't a privacy concern using any Fediverse Social media platform. It's just that there are some inherent design implementations that make it hard for the average person to invade the privacy of a user of the platform.

This is, of course, afaik. Please let me know if I'm mistaken.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Search currently kinda sucks actually inside the fediverse. I tried to find one of those posts before making the comment but gave up because it was worthless.

I’d imagine it’s only a matter of time until someone makes something better, and 3rd parties start mining it. Or we’ll get that nefarious third party with a server just ingesting all our data to sell off.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

pretty much spot on, search is still pretty bad on fedi (on the twittery side and the reddity side)
although it is still not hard to invade someones privacy the old fashioned way by, for instance, making alt accounts to evade blocks but thats nothing unique thats all platforms

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It can be searched just fine, Googled my tag to see where I get hits, and quite a few are Lemmy comments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wait, even direct messages?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

direct messages arent really private on any platform but on the fediverse they especially arent
not only can your admin read your messages if they really want to (like non federated sites) but also you have to consider the other instances admins too
i think thats why lemmy has a profile field for a matrix username by default because thats at least a more private way to do dms

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The instance I joined didn’t even require an email at the time. They have a long way to go if they want to be the next Facebook lol

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I just use jerboa it's foss.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Yep. I've tried other clients, but somehow this one just stuck for me. Simple interface, works well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Thanks just installed it I appreciate the link

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

yeah it works well can confirm

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Eternity

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

I would recommend any of the open source apps, my personal recommendation is Eternity.

https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Eternity

You can find it on f-droid.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Voyager is on both platforms, Jebora is only for Android, both are pure open source so you have full privacy and anonymity.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would stick with one of the open source apps. Thunder is my favorite, but Voyager and Eternity are good as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What lemmy apps aren't open source?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Sync, Boost, Connect and Summit, to name a few.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've only used Thunder, but it's been just fine and I haven't felt like I need to see what else is out there. I guess it could be more responsive with reply notifications and such but that's pretty minor.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

You could use the website in a webbrowser. Then you don't have to be concerned about app and app provider.

It's what I'm using. On mobile too.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I’m a Voyager user since when it was wefwef.

I heard about boost and it looks promising. It even has a dedicated community on lemmy.

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I was a boost user for reddit, and when it finalized for Lemmy I had to "launch the rocket" 🚀 (get it again) I loved it over there and it is getting awesome here, as for privacy, I honestly don't know, and I know that is probably the worst thing I could say here. I was so angry with reddit about the greed and all it just felt right to keep supporting boost. I am rather noob to the privacy concerns and I am learning.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I use Eternity it's foss and a fork of infinity for reddit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I feel like I'm on Infinity but was transported to a better version of Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Just don't use anything proprietary like Sync or Connect

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sync is the absolute best app but I think privacy is probably not great.

But this is Lemmy so you don't even need to use an email address if you don't want. You can be semi anonymous and change username often if you want, and change between apps or instances also.

Data is never gone but it's also not tied to anything real about you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I use Connect for lemmy. Doesn't ask for any permissions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Liftoff

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Liftoff is pretty decent

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

This is all opinions here, so I'm just saying that Sync is the only one I know that's closed source.