reddit is having a conversation is some dudes house. lots of rooms. his house.
lemmy is having a conversation in a large public space where anyone could be listening in. your words are no more retractable than the sound of your voice over an open field or street corner.
the fediverse is an incredibly public place, so im always curious how thats spose to gel with very privacy-conscious users.
I use lemmy not because of privacy since public forums aren’t private, but to move away from corporate social spaces profiting off their user base. And also getting back third party apps.
Lemmy feels more like old school Internet of people discussing and talking because they want to as opposed to the whole spaces end goal being to figure out how to IPO.
This is exactly my reason for using it. I love the third-party apps, and I love that it’s not owned by some corporation. Another thing I like is the resilience. Your particular instance may be down, or if cloud flare is down, several instances could be down, but the entire network is not going to be down.
There is absolutely no such thing as a private social media. Even if you weren’t able to make social media private from a network and technology standpoint, the users would dock themselves unless they immediately generated new accounts for every single post, basically.
Different bits of data have different levels of privacy. My comments here, public, I have explicitly shouted them out to the world. My home address, private to friends and family. My pornhub history, private to me exclusively.
reddit is having a conversation is some dudes house. lots of rooms. his house.
lemmy is having a conversation in a large public space where anyone could be listening in. your words are no more retractable than the sound of your voice over an open field or street corner.
the fediverse is an incredibly public place, so im always curious how thats spose to gel with very privacy-conscious users.
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I use lemmy not because of privacy since public forums aren’t private, but to move away from corporate social spaces profiting off their user base. And also getting back third party apps.
Lemmy feels more like old school Internet of people discussing and talking because they want to as opposed to the whole spaces end goal being to figure out how to IPO.
This is exactly my reason for using it. I love the third-party apps, and I love that it’s not owned by some corporation. Another thing I like is the resilience. Your particular instance may be down, or if cloud flare is down, several instances could be down, but the entire network is not going to be down.
There is absolutely no such thing as a private social media. Even if you weren’t able to make social media private from a network and technology standpoint, the users would dock themselves unless they immediately generated new accounts for every single post, basically.
Different bits of data have different levels of privacy. My comments here, public, I have explicitly shouted them out to the world. My home address, private to friends and family. My pornhub history, private to me exclusively.