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"BeReal." FOSS alternative? Yes please!
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this post was submitted on 08 May 2024
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I don't know, personally I've never liked the idea behind that app. It seems like a massive privacy risk. I know if it is open source there is less of a risk, but I still don't like the idea of people being encouraged to constantly post themselves and their surroundings.
This, as well as the fediverse's double edged feature that stuff pretty much can never be deleted (only "requested").
This sounds like a privacy nightmare
The only reason i somehow trust BeReal is that the company behind it is French(therefore unescapably GDPR-compliant)
Yeah i get your point. But if people want to take pictures of their live (with foreigners without asking them), then they can also do it now. But most of them are not doing it.
A few friends of mine have BeReal. and from time to time i watched reals of other people (who i also know personally). What i like is that you get a good impression what they are doing even though you do not see them often.
But yeah sometimes there might be people on it you did not agree to publish this foto.
On a centralized platform (with open source technology) there is probably less guarantee that the pictures are really deleted (after a few days) but maybe you should trust the sw developer/hoster.