I don’t think Lemmy is more privacy friendly. In fact, its, arguably, even less privacy friendly that others.
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mattomattic@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
How can we make it more popular?
By not doing the things that corporations do to make things popular. Do we even need Lemmy to be popular? I think we concentrate on trying to keep the Fediverse and Lemmy user focused and privacy friendly and people will naturally come over as they get burnt on the ever increasingly enshitified corporate data-theft sites. We need to be something different than the big sites. A breath of fresh air. I think people will be OK with putting up with a few quirks to escape those toxic environments. I think Lemmy is progressing just fine and I’m enjoying it.
LeberechtReinhold@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A10@kerala.party 1 year ago
That depends on your definition of privacy. Can you elaborate ?
Compared to reddit no lemmy instance is tracking your usage metadata, and it does not share any identifiable data with other Fediverse instances other than what you explicitly share on the platform.
mattomattic@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Ok, so I’m wondering how you explain the billions of dollars profit corporate sites generate from scraping and selling our private data? I’m also genuinely interested in how you might explain how TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or anything Google are more privacy friendly than Lemmy?
Naveen000can@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes, what’s the use of having alot of shitpost
lemmyingly@lemm.ee 1 year ago
How is the Fediverse privacy focused?
RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 1 year ago
How is the Fediverse privacy focused?
Not only have there been major bugs with delete of comments not working on other servers, the whole idea of federation is that it gets sent out to any instance that wants a copy - with not even a ‘terms of service’ that is standard on Lemmy.
For such a communist focus that the Lemmy developers have, I’ts so odd that they don’t emphasize that content is public and have it like Wikipedia content contributions. They use GPL license to force people to share their work of the code, but then they turn around and promise privacy that they fail to deliver on given that they don’t even warn newcomers how federation works.
mattomattic@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I’m not suggesting any Federated service is private. However, we should be aware of and always working towards preventing Lemmy (in context) from becoming anything like those abusive corporate data selling clusterfucks.
bruzzard@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You seddit right!!
Secret300@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I definitely think Lemmy needs to grow. There’s plenty of subreddits that don’t have an active Lemmy community.
Nobsi@feddit.de 1 year ago
Yes otherwise this will become a tech and tankie echochamber shithole
mattomattic@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Can you elaborate how making Lemmy like current popular sites will prevent tech and “tankie” content?
Nobsi@feddit.de 1 year ago
Do i need to?
Reddit was great because it had everything from baking to bombmaking and itwas popoular in its own communities. Lemmy only has bombmaking and even then nobody in the bombmaking communities go to !bombmaking@lem.ee or !bombmaking@lemmee.to or !bombmaking@federationsite.websitedomainending
They go to reddit/r/bombmaking. Because thats where the people are.
Lemmy is supposed to be a better reddit alternative. But all we have right now is a big majority of “socialism is the best, all problems stem from capitalism” people. And while i totally agree with the sentiment, i do not want to have the 1000th discussion on why capitalism sucks.
Especially not if the discussion is brought up everytime by capitalismhater@capitalismhate.capitalimshate who highjacks all threads to speak about why capitalism is bad.
HerbalGamer@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s pretty much the biggest gripe I have with Lemmy; there can be different groups with the same general theme who never come across each others’ content, resulting in small echochambers with minimal content.
mattomattic@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
No, you don’t need to, but I was interested in what you might say.