0
The 4 best Reddit alternatives: Top picks to replace your subreddits - Lemmy is listed first!
(www.androidpolice.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2024
0 points (NaN% liked)
Fediverse
28226 readers
422 users here now
A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!
Rules
- Posts must be on topic.
- Be respectful of others.
- Cite the sources used for graphs and other statistics.
- Follow the general Lemmy.world rules.
Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
You're always free to spin up your own server and host it if you're concerned about the way your data is being handled. Not something you can do with the corporate alternatives
But as soon as you interact with literally anyone (or anyone interacts with you) your data is still replicated on other servers.
Your posts are all public and discoverable by web crawlers even if your instance didn’t federate at all. That’s kind of the point of activityPUB
How about private messages which are also unencrypted?
ActivityPub does not have support for private messages. Services that try to shoehorn a direct message as "private" are misusing the protocol. You could configure client-side encryption but thats outside the scope of ActivityPub
That's true, but neither the article nor the discussion are about ActivityPub.
Both are specifically about Lemmy, and Lemmy does have private messages.