~~!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com seems pretty active to me.~~
Sorry, misread privacy for piracy. I'll show myself out.
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2025
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If it makes you feel any better, I thought the same until I read your comment
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This server is probably the best for privacy too FWIW
It says "nothing is here" when I click through. Do they block some third party apps like Voyager?
I would think the most privacy friendly would be to make a random user and not give out too much info. There isnβt anything else other than email. Hosting your own instance doesnβt equal privacy either as itβs super obvious since all content on that instance is from that user lol
I'm not sure, but I've heard that some instances log IPs.
if theyre smart, they dump their logs regularly. i think my instance is 36 hours. that data is a liability.
I think they all do in the logs.
Does each comment store the userβs IP address as well? (Like it would on other forum software?)
The Lemmy software seems to only store IPs for login tokens (i.e. on login).
It's likely many instances store IPs short term in access logs as well.
Privacy and social media donβt go together. Logs of your IP are the least of your worries.
Yeah, especially Lemmy.
Lemmy is apparently bad if you want privacy.
IMO IP logs aren't that big of a deal.
Lemmy, and ActivityPub in general, is quite bad for privacy. To the point where I doubt it'd be legal for a company to host a server within the EU. Everything is handled by volunteers and amateurs. Privacy policies are bog standard or barely enforced. You have no idea what servers are using and selling your information, and any server can follow basically any community.
The easier it is for someone to create a new account after getting kicked or banned, the more likely it is that other servers will block that server and leave you with a near useless Lemmy account.
hexbear probably
does not require an email for sign-up, does not store ip addresses, and (most of the time) you get posts removed or banned for giving particularly doxxable info
though if you aren't a communist you won't have a good time unless you have a humiliation kink
though if you aren't a communist you won't have a good time unless you have a humiliation kink
I don't want to make jokes but https://hexbear.net/post/4468531
For what it's worth, they have their domain back. It seems from a skim from the front page they're just deciding how to refederate (allow list or block list, basically they are trying to decide if they will automatically federate with new instances).
At the time of writing this comment the votes are close and allow list is winning (many commenters don't want to federate with new instances unless they are approved).
Given that all Lemmy instances are run by private individuals you should probably think about using a vpn (or dns proxy at the very least) to obfuscate your true location and data. This applies to any mainstream or corporate social media platform, obv.
Some instances block connections from VPN.
lemme.ee doesn't
Lemmy.ml requires no email. The only person who can doxx you is yourself.
your own self hosted one
After proving that I wasn't a bot via Matrix, sh.itjust.works activated my e-mail despite having an obviously bogus e-mail registered, so that's a plus.
What are your goals?
I would say it's really a combination of the instances policies and their jurisdiction, and in terms of jurisdiction it also depends on where you live (e.g. you may have more protections under law if the instance is hosted in your country)
There's also nothing stopping you from using multiple instances β siloing your interaction in different types of communities in different accounts on different instances. This may be useful if part of your privacy concerns are having all of your post / comment data on one account on one instance.
Edit: You can also use an email aliasing service to avoid even giving your email out. There are aliasing services such as Addy.io, Simplelogin (subsidiary of Proton AG), Firefox Relay (Mozilla), as well as some email providers which provide (iCloud, Proton, Mailbox.org to name a few)