Just heard of Lemmy today

I would love to leave reddit

Whats most privacy respecting android app for Lemmy ?

  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.worldEnglish
    601·
    7 months ago

    I can’t imagine that any app that currently exists gives a shit about exploiting your data. Lemmy is too young for that to really be a problem.

    The real problem is that nothing on lemmy is private because of it’s federated design. There have been some discussions the last few weeks talking about this, but just about every interaction you do is broadcasted out to every instance, and its social media so of course anyone can see what you post. Things like viewed posts and saved content should stay on your instances server, but assume every other action is public.

    • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
      61·
      7 months ago

      Agreed. Although The Fediverse also can’t easily be searched via your standard search engines, so finding that public information is harder than on other social media apps (for now…).

      This isn’t to say there isn’t a privacy concern using any Fediverse Social media platform. It’s just that there are some inherent design implementations that make it hard for the average person to invade the privacy of a user of the platform.

      This is, of course, afaik. Please let me know if I’m mistaken.

      • tomo@reddit.azumanga.gayEnglish
        5·
        7 months ago

        pretty much spot on, search is still pretty bad on fedi (on the twittery side and the reddity side)
        although it is still not hard to invade someones privacy the old fashioned way by, for instance, making alt accounts to evade blocks but thats nothing unique thats all platforms

      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world
        5·
        7 months ago

        Search currently kinda sucks actually inside the fediverse. I tried to find one of those posts before making the comment but gave up because it was worthless.

        I’d imagine it’s only a matter of time until someone makes something better, and 3rd parties start mining it. Or we’ll get that nefarious third party with a server just ingesting all our data to sell off.

      • FierySpectre@lemmy.world
        21·
        7 months ago

        It can be searched just fine, Googled my tag to see where I get hits, and quite a few are Lemmy comments.

      • tomo@reddit.azumanga.gayEnglish
        5·
        7 months ago

        direct messages arent really private on any platform but on the fediverse they especially arent
        not only can your admin read your messages if they really want to (like non federated sites) but also you have to consider the other instances admins too
        i think thats why lemmy has a profile field for a matrix username by default because thats at least a more private way to do dms

    • meseek #2982@lemmy.ca
      1·
      7 months ago

      The instance I joined didn’t even require an email at the time. They have a long way to go if they want to be the next Facebook lol

    • zingo@lemmy.ca
      8·
      7 months ago

      Yes, the Infinity for Reddit fork.

      The cool thing is that I just imported my settings from IFR to Eternity flawlessly.

    • random65837@lemmy.world
      12·
      7 months ago

      Do you find its sometimes hard as hell to follow replies? I never remember having that issue with Infinity, yet seem to have it all the time with Eternity.

  • uzi@lemmy.ca
    173·
    7 months ago

    Voyager is on both platforms, Jebora is only for Android, both are pure open source so you have full privacy and anonymity.

  • Matt@lemdro.idEnglish
    10·
    7 months ago

    I would stick with one of the open source apps. Thunder is my favorite, but Voyager and Eternity are good as well.

    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      I’ve only used Thunder, but it’s been just fine and I haven’t felt like I need to see what else is out there. I guess it could be more responsive with reply notifications and such but that’s pretty minor.

  • Kissaki@feddit.deEnglish
    9·
    7 months ago

    You could use the website in a webbrowser. Then you don’t have to be concerned about app and app provider.

    It’s what I’m using. On mobile too.

      • Kissaki@feddit.deEnglish
        4·
        7 months ago

        Any working what?

        I’m using the website of my instance. Lemmy instances typically have their own website you can use - which is exactly or slightly modified versions of the interface of the Lemmy project.

        If you trust your instance with your account and its associated data surely you trust it’s website.

            • random65837@lemmy.world
              31·
              7 months ago

              Edit: down voters care to explain why I’m wrong?

              You’d think the lesson would have been learned by hive mind drive-by down votes with Reddit. You always know when somebody (actually) can dispute what you say, because they say it!

    • AkaBobHoward@lemmy.world
      21·
      7 months ago

      I was a boost user for reddit, and when it finalized for Lemmy I had to “launch the rocket” 🚀 (get it again) I loved it over there and it is getting awesome here, as for privacy, I honestly don’t know, and I know that is probably the worst thing I could say here. I was so angry with reddit about the greed and all it just felt right to keep supporting boost. I am rather noob to the privacy concerns and I am learning.

  • 1984@lemmy.today
    51·
    7 months ago

    Sync is the absolute best app but I think privacy is probably not great.

    But this is Lemmy so you don’t even need to use an email address if you don’t want. You can be semi anonymous and change username often if you want, and change between apps or instances also.

    Data is never gone but it’s also not tied to anything real about you.