Hasn't it gone out of fashion already ?

When I read "privacy nightmare", I think of a system collecting or revealing information without the user's knowledge. As I understand BeReal, the user understands exactly what information they're sharing, and with whom. That said, I'm puzzled by why anyone would want to participate on either side.

Here are some things I might be doing in any random time window in which such an app might prompt me to share a selfie:

• Eating food, usually not interesting food foodie friends would like to see
• Walking, usually somewhere pretty boring
• Sitting on the toilet
• Writing code at my computer (often code someone is paying me to write and wouldn't like included in a social media post)
• Picking dandelions to feed to the goslings at the park

I don't want to share any of those activities with my friends. If we're catching up on life in person, I'm not going to talk about any of that. If any of my friends do want to see those moments, I'd find it weird and voyeuristic.

The interesting moment I do want to share, and people might actually want to see is the close encounter with the wild gosling taking the dandelion leaf from me.

You should assume that whatever you upload to the internet without encryption is public. Bereal was always advertised as a tool for sharing your life with others, so this isn't unexpected for me. The only misleading part is that if you share with friends only, it's not just your friends, but also the service provider, so you should assume that it may leak. I never used bereal so I'm not familiar with its features, some of my friends use it and I just heard about it from them. From their description it didn't sound as an app where you should expect privacy.

Is Lemmy a privacy nightmare? No, because you know that everything is public here, admins can even see your DMs.

Do not share private data on the public internet

You have your profile set to public? Why not just share with your friends?

Okay, I'll stop (what even is it?)

Edit: if you're at all concerned about privacy, maybe provide something else than Play Store link for alternatives. Google bad.