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These and Instagram seem to be the main locii of conversation for a topic I'm interested in. Instagram is a no because Meta. Just trying to keep myself off of the big data mining sites and search results are a bit of a hot mess.

Edit: Please, no more splaining how there isn’t any privacy on the net. There’s what can be scraped, what can be gathered from cookies (which I’m as careful as I can be about), and there’s what we make it easy for corporations to collect by using their products. I’m asking about the latter for Discord and Tumblr. It’s not that I’m unaware of the general problem (otherwise I wouldn’t be asking), it’s just that I’m out of the loop on specifics for these sites.

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Those services have total surveillance. Total data retention. No expectation of privacy.

To be fair Lemmy also has no expectation of privacy. It's even worse because the platforms totally open, so anybody can mine your data here. They don't even have to sign a contract with meta. But I think we all accept that trade off to have an open public square.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah so basically anything do in social media, any social media, is going to not be private in any way. There's no way around it. The big difference Lemmy makes is that it's not developed with data mining or profit in mind, so you are (somewhat more) safe from shitty changes to the platform that could compromise your privacy or just make experience worse (like mtx or ads). You can use the platform using a browser or application that doesn't spy on you.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 1 year ago

I think there's some confusion in your post. You have zero privacy on this platform. Lemmy has zero privacy at all. Activity pub publishes everything you do to everyone in the world. It is a perfect platform for data miners. You were literally being spied on 100% for everything you do on Lemmy.

Which is fine, because it's the public square. But I want you to understand that. It's very important. Lemmy is actually worse for privacy than meta.

[–] evilviper@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

There's a certain (understandable) mindset that if the service you are using has some form of "gate" to it that prevents the information from being easily scrapped on the web that there are certain privacy expectations. Discord for instance requires you to make an account, find a server, and then either join or be invited to the server. So there is an expectation that what you post (even within private messages) to only be for the people that have "access".

But the reality is (and has been proven many times now) that so long as a company has access to your data and can read/understand the data, they will sell that data to whoever wants to pay them for it (most often advertisers). This is true across websites, apps, and even operating systems.

Privacy is hard, and there aren't a lot of apps/sites/OSes that truly support it. Thankfully though, as people have started to take it more seriously more companies have started providing options to support the demand (my personal favorites are Signal and Proton).