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submitted 1 year ago by chrizbie@lemmy.nz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I'm just curious to know how y'all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?

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[-] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago

The problem with tiny instances is reliability and trust.

If you lose the motivation to run it tomorrow it's gone. If you run out of money? Gone. If you're the only admin and you die? Gone.

In addition to that you can read everything I do on your instance. Like all my "private" messages.

If an instance admin is scummy they could even modify the Lemmy code running and save away all passwords and emails in plaintext. Not an issue for me as I use a custom email and random passwords for every service, but it can fuck over random people.

So professional bigger instances do have their benefits too.

[-] doot@social.bug.expert 1 points 1 year ago

dude, all I ask for at registration time is a nickname and a captcha... reddit, twitter, fb and google all read your shit and train ai models and make billions of dollars every month

I'm sure your shitposts are top secret but idk, what's your threat model?

[-] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Losing all my comments and posts?

[-] doot@social.bug.expert 1 points 1 year ago

also, you can just export them?

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