But the advantage is that Lemmy allows Tor. 😅

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your privacy is worse on lemmy. anyone can access all your comment and post upvotes and downvotes. your pms are open for server admins to read. both examples need to be fixed imo

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Btw, your PMs being available to admins is the same on like every socmed. If you have to use lemmy as your secure method of communication (you shouldn’t), at least use PGP, but lemmy isn’t meant for that, use XMPP or Matrix or even Signal I guess.

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People DM each other on Lemmy?

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TIL that feature exists

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So can you on reddit.

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Your privacy is the same on either. But now, anyone can gain that information, not just Reddit’s investors and partners.

It’s what you write on these platforms that affects your privacy.

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So, is it better to host your own instance?

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Doesn’t change the voting situation. Since your votes need to be seen by other instances, Lemmy needs a mechanism for federating votes. Since instances are untrusted, there needs to be some way of preventing manipulation. Thus, AFAIK, Lemmy simply shares your votes across instances, letting each one tally them up. As a side effect, any server admin of an instance you can interact with can also get a list of all your votes.

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Man So much this.

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