But the advantage is that Lemmy allows Tor. 😅
Lemmy is also not overrun by AI bots and sock puppets.
Witness me!!!
Oh, you pickled moon dumpling.
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The place is a Village rather than a City.
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
So can you on reddit.
People DM each other on Lemmy?
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.
So, is it better to host your own instance?
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.
Man So much this.
It’s the same with every small forum tbh
Typical Magnus comment.
Praise
KierKlear!
💜 Klear
It’s also not only about upvotes here.
It’s OK
I think should touch some grass because i may recognise more people here than in the village i am living in for like 2 jears
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Its impossible to delete anything on the fediverse
I think the internet at large should be viewed this way and the Fediverse is no exception. It’s almost impossible to completely get rid of anything that isn’t under your direct and immediate control - i.e. your own personal email server. I don’t assume that Lemmy/Fediverse is any different.
That said, with the effort to be ”not Reddit” or just another social media platform ready to be potentially abused, focus should be placed on privacy and user ownership and their ability to control their data on the platform.
It’s impossible to delete anything on the internet. You can’t control everybody’s backups.
What happens on the internet stays on the internet. As in “it doesn’t go away”
Except things you desperately need 10+ years later. Those are gone.
I wish this weren’t so true 😭
Why is it always the trash that gets preserved??
Its easier to edit than to delete. So if you want something gone you should edit it first
There’s a chance your edits won’t propagate to all instances though.
Now there are my nudes and other things somewhere out there. Just great…
I think I have your nudes lying around here somewhere…gimme a minute
But I’m not Fascism, please don’t fuck me 😭
For some of the really prolific posters, yes. But there are also lurkers like me.
I doubt anyone can recognize me when I comment or encounter a comment I made.
Sa PH lang kita madalas nakikita, san ka ba nagpo-post pre? 😃
Pakalat-kalat lang ako. Kung saan lang mapagtripan. 😅
Bihira lang din akong magpost kasi madalas wala rin naman akong masabi o maidagdag.
I’m just hanging around at random places. Wherever my fancy takes me.
I rarely post too, since I rarely have anything to say or add.
I will never forget you.
I’m order to prove you wrong, I am committed to remembering your username.
I love your username, I used to use it on another platform.
Thanks…?
Let’s see when we meet each other in some other corner of Lemmy.
until we see each other again 🫡
User tags make recognizing people a lot easier. I see tagged users a lot. Voyager even keeps a running total of how many times I have upvoted and downvoted particular users.
There’s one user I have at like -30, tagged as a Nazi apologist. And sure enough, every time I scroll past them, they’re commenting some weird BS.
How do you tag users on voyager?
Go to the user screen, then use the menu button in the top corner. There’s an “Edit Tag” option.
Heyyy, it apparently works the same on Boost. In honor of teaching me how to tag people, you are now tagged as “Tagged”. Thank you and congratulations!
Oh, I use that too on my mobile app (Voyager). I am starting to think that once the total votes reach some threshold, either I’d encounter them consistently dishing out hot takes, or I’m primed to think their take is hot and spicy.
It feels like Reddit felt twenty years ago
Reddit 20 years ago was mostly just Reddit staff
By 2007, reddit definitely felt pretty big to me. But like an overgrown small town maybe.
Look at it this way, in a small town people are more likely to be kind and offer higher quality information when asked. The same things can be said about lemmy.
Agreed…Lemmy slightly reminds me of the early days of Internet forums/chatrooms/etc.
Yes, I’m old.
Definitely found that to be the case so far! Posted the same question to reddit and it was crickets there.
In game theory, a repeated prisoner’s dilemma can become a stag hunt if the probability of future interaction is high enough. Which is essentially what you’re saying.
What happened to FlyingSquid
They started being a huge asshole, and when called out for it just up and left.
IIRC, they were having some health issues. It’s possible that it likely got too overwhelming, and they took time away from Lemmy to focus on their health.
I suspect they’re also using an alt now to lurk/comment and not posting like they were. There’s a user I saw that seemed to track, but could also be a coincidence. Hope they’re good regardless of anyone’s opinion, we’re all still just people here at the end of the day
Oh 😢
