[–] 2 points 5 months ago

I appreciate the detailed response, especially the idea of having separate accounts for separate interests (even if I most likely won't actually do that). At some point, the number of measures one takes in the name of their online privacy becomes too much. I think that, for now -- as someone who had a single Reddit account which had an extensive public history through several communities at the time [I didn't know any better back then] -- it's enough to just switch from these profit-driven fascist-feeding corporations to platforms like lemmy.

Maybe in the future I'll have another phase where I take it one step further, I don't know, but I don't want to make my using the internet become a nightmare.

It's a realistic appraisal of Lemmy vs Reddit you've provided, I feel.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    i know posts/comments are public, along with everything, i thought that would be a concern if you're shifting from reddit because its not, well, private? asides from posts/comments obviously, but them being trackable to a user alongside user information like age, gender, geographic location, IP address, etc.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    That's obvious, but before, we could use GrapheneOS and F-Droid etc to defend it ourselves. I'm not expecting Google to help, just hoping the resistance has something up its sleeve too.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The same single post gets retweeted and reposted on X and other socials over 100's of times and even more with the biggest posts, so it shouldn't be impossible

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