Other reddit users are leaving reddit and I am also one 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’ve really enjoyed my time on Lemmy - I left Reddit after the third party API fiasco. Having said that, Lemmy’s still super quiet sometimes, but I feel my voice is more heard by the people who are here.
The quietness reminds me at there is no algo milking me behind the scene for more eye ball time
Class of 23' represeeeent. I feel like we were still the biggest batch so far, no?
Be careful when describing Lemmy as a "privacy valuing" service.
Your personal identity privacy is improved, yes, as there are no corporations to actively sell this data... but your identity (the email and info you signed up with) is at the whims of the admins of whatever instance you signed up for, and hoping their opsec is good.
The privacy of your content does not exist at all. Anything you post including direct messages is blasted out across the entire fediverse to ALL federated servers, where you have NO control who is downloading and storing it.
You should treat Lemmy like it is a early 2000s forum site, where you should feel comfortable saying what you like, but never use anything personally identifying anywhere on your profile (including a personal email during sign up), never share anything personal in DM's, and consider a proxy/VPN to further obscure your ID from instance admins.
What privacy? The Fediverse runs on an open protocol. Everything you say and do is transmitted to the world. If you're posting here your data isn't being bought and sold by big tech, it's being given to them.
This isn't to say that the Fediverse is a bad place or anything, just pointing out one of the tradeoffs in how it works. It's not under any one organization's control but there's consequences from that.
I like it here too, but I'm not sure why you think there's a level of privacy?
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.
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