Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

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Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

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Which is most privacy friendly instance of lemmy? (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 month ago by admin@lemmy.today to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/24809302

also i can't self-host.

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And to further clarify, even DMs aren't technically private, they're just hidden.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Supporting this, Lemmy encourages people not to use DMs and wants people to add Matrix user details to their profile instead.

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

They do it the right way.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A DM is literally just like @ing someone on Mastodon and setting the visibility to that user only. It's just unlisted. If you were the instance admin or otherwise knew the ID of the DM, you can find it.