Other reddit users are leaving reddit and I am also my be of them I came from Reddit I think Lemmy is a perfect alternative for those who value privacy or don’t like to be sold and bought by big tech companies such as Google.
Other reddit users are leaving reddit and I am also my be of them I came from Reddit I think Lemmy is a perfect alternative for those who value privacy or don’t like to be sold and bought by big tech companies such as Google.
I like it here too, but I’m not sure why you think there’s a level of privacy?
They’re keeping their punctuation marks private.
Cuz its open source?
It doesn’t give privacy by itself. It gives us the ability to ensure the software we run isn’t enshittified. We still have to trust the site administrators not to be douche-bags. Also nothing stopping 3rd parties from scanning the site and taking information about you that way. Lemmy/Mastodon are still the better alternative, but anything on the internet is by design not private.
Thanks for the clarify
It’s also worth pointing out that your upvotes are public here (using something like kbin/mbin to view a lemmy instance). Downvotes could also be seen if some other instance connects to your instance and decides to display downvote information.
I believe you can get even more nuanced within piefed, so you can better see accounts that ONLY downvote and/or are very new. They also allow:
Its pretty neat!