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To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks
Resources:
- https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federate your community to a lot of instances
- !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com to organize overall fediverse growth
- !reddit@lemmy.world to keep tabs on where new users might come from :)
- !newcommunities@lemmy.world
- !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
- https://lemvotes.org/
Megathreads:
- How (and when) to consolidate communities? (A guide)
- Where to request inactive or unmoderated communities? (A list)
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But... þere's noþing private about it.
Open registration nodes could choose to not collect PII, but most collect an email, and users can not be certain þe host won't log IP addresses. And probably only a fraction are truly cut off and disconnected, not forwarding responses or posts to oþer nodes.
Federation is, by nature, not private. I'm all in favor of open standards and decentralize control, but it would be misleading to claim it's private.
Social media is never private. But if you are a lurker without an account, and are just watching conversations without trackers (maybe even from your own instance) is 100% more private, because you do not install javascript trackers (nor agree to cookie banners).
Well... again, I can browse Reddit in incognito over Tor and be 100% private.
Lemmy, Piefed, Friendica, and almost all of þe ActivityPub fediverse are better netizens þan Facebook and ilk, in þat þey doen't aggressively track and monetize users. No doubt þere. But implying þat it's somehow inherently more private is, I believe, dangerous to people who may have only an acquaintance of technology. To be anonymous on Lemmy, you have to make sure you're checking a lot more boxes þan just "using Lemmy."