Having PieFed etc. in here could help raise awareness I made a Pull Request to add it, hopefully it gets accepted https://github.com/ente-io/privacypack/pull/122

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Reddit:

forces users to use a proprietary app full of trackers to collect data and sell it to advertisers
blocks VPN usage

Lemmy/Piefed:

browser access is encouraged,
lots of third party apps, most of them being open source
allows VPN usage

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Privacy is a spectrum. But when 99.99% of userdata is publicly available no responsible person could call that service "private".

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

Privacy is a spectrum. There's always a level of privacy you're going to give away when posting or interacting on an Internet forum.

The levels of privacy that Reddit and Lemmy/PieFed offer are vastly different, for reasons I stated above. Saying that they are not private is just going to deter potential new joiners to give them a try.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Are you following me around Lemmy specifically or are you a reply guy to everyone?

I mod this community, as I told you yesterday (https://lemmy.zip/post/48357775/21510824 ), but thank you for another bad faith example.

Edit: https://lemmy.zip/modlog?userId=18312344

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yesterday I caught you spreading disinformation to promote a for-profit social media company. Today you're here with disinformation about Lemmy.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

People can read that thread and make their own opinions about our exchanges

https://lemmy.zip/post/48357775/21510389

Today you’re here

I have 5 posts on this community's home page. Maybe you're the one following me around

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"Teach the debate" right. The facts are the facts no matter what you feel about them. Please leave me alone.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://lemmy.zip/modlog?userId=18312344

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

A power tripping mod is irrelevant to the fact that you knowingly continue to spread disinformation promoting a for profit social media company.

Do not reply to me ever again or I will report you for harassment.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you don't want him to keep replying, try disengaging

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

Users on my instance are not responsible for the behavior of others.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

A detail, but I've been browsing Reddit on a VPN since OSA.

So has much of the UK. So I don't think their VPN checks are very good.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What about trackers that collect data to be sold to advertisers? Seems like enough of a privacy concern to me.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah sure, I was just noting that if Reddit does try to block VPN access, they're really bad at it.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And people have been using third party client with their own API keys even after the API became paid.

They've never been good at any kind of check, it's just supposed to be annoying enough to bother the average user

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Well I'll just say it hasn't once stopped me and I've bounced around a lot of IPs.