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The 4 best Reddit alternatives: Top picks to replace your subreddits - Lemmy is listed first! (www.androidpolice.com)

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[-] NovaPrime@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

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

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 6 points 8 months ago

But as soon as you interact with literally anyone (or anyone interacts with you) your data is still replicated on other servers.

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

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

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

How about private messages which are also unencrypted?

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

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

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

That's true, but neither the article nor the discussion are about ActivityPub.

Both are specifically about Lemmy, and Lemmy does have private messages.

[-] Hubi@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No personally identifiable information or private account information is transmitted between instances. The only thing that is synced is the content of your posts, reports and up- and downvotes. And all of that serves a purpose and is shared willingly.