Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

robocall@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Are we safe here on Lemmy?

  Every other post here I’ve seen is low key promoting violent revolution. So I’d imagine there’s at least one FBI agent hanging around and writing reports.

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• Damage@feddit.it ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Everything on Lemmy is public

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  • themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Everything on the internet is public

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    • ageedizzle@piefed.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Some things are more public than others. DMs are technically ‘on the internet’ as well, but they aren’t indexable by a search engine.  

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• Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No. That is just the nature of public social media. It comes down what you choose to share when it comes to risk, so the same amount as reddit.

  But, userbases who behave more like old school forums are more likely to not share personal stuff like other social media such as facebook, Instagram, tiktok, etc which have drawn people who want to publicly catalog their personal lives.

  For actual privacy that’s better left to encrypted private messaging like signal and so on. Social media isn’t the place to expect privacy.

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• 46_and_2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  • chuckles *

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• FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Assume all contacts are hostile and practice good OPSEC.

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• whereIsTamara@lemmy.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lmfao no. Use a vpn, rotate your username, do t use personal emails.and definitely don’t get a .world account.

  Use Lemmy.org. No emails needed. Don’t forget your password.

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  • lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m new to Lemmy. Why does Lemmy.world require an email and Lemmy.org doesn’t? I assumed all the Lemmies and Piefeds and whatnots required an email.

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    • walden@wetshav.ing ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Each instance admin can check a box to require email. It reduces spam accounts and reduces work for admins because users can perform password resets themselves.

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    • Liketearsinrain@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Each instance admin decides whether they require an email. Mine doesn’t, but it’s more important to choose an instance with admins you trust and not located in the US.

      Don’t use your real email regardless of instance.

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      • lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Too late. Nobody told me. I thought they all required email. I might sign up for a different account if that isn’t frowned upon.

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      • hector@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Why does it matter if the instance is in the US? Just more susceptible to government pressure? Mine is in the US, as am I, I haven’t seen any action from them, their whole thing is to be hands off which is why I chose them.

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  • hector@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You don’t need an email with lemmy.org? what is wrong with the .world accounts?

    How does one go about finding and installing a vpn on a computer and phone connection? Because half the vpn’s are themselves spying on users and selling the data to brokers I’ve heard, which rather defeats the purpose, especially as the government buys all data broker information.

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    • Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I look up VPNs on the privacy reddit or lemmy. Some vpns are good, usually the paid ones. The free ones are certainly selling your shit.

      It’s just software you install and click the on toggle with.

      $10 a month subscription last time I used one.

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    • PrincessTardigrade@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Do you have a source for that? Genuinely asking, I use a VPN and would like to read more into it

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      • hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh nothing specific on that, that is what I’ve read in passing from everywhere though, you are supposed to do all this forensic work on every app because no one has done it for us apparently, and the app stores and Operating system owners decided to sell us all out for an extra buck so they won’t tell us. My phone won’t even tell me if an app costs money, they will tell me if they charge money through them, then I can download it and they will want a monthly payment outside of the app store.

        They all have top ratings that are openly gamed, comments are fake, last I checked they even disallowed seeing worst comments first making the fake paid for ai comments, actually indians, the only reviews you can see. But I digress.

        Nothing in particular but that is what everyone has said about vpn’s and every other app, you are supposed to research their data sharing and all that because no one does it for us somehow.

        If you want to know that the government buys data broker information, I have that one here, theintercept.com/…/intel-agencies-buying-data-por…

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• FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You are on a public forum, just like reddit. Anyone and everyone can read what you wrote, why would you think otherwise?

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• yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  anyone using any public facing website to organized a protest almost deserves to fall in my eyes.

  Why hasn’t everyone downloaded signal yet?

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• baatliwala@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Federation and privacy don’t really go hand in hand

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