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Cake day: August 27th, 2025
  • SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.worldOPtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Lemmy vs Reddit
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    7 hours ago

    It certainly seems to be trending in that direction, no? A lot of the “best” ideas do tend to get crowbarred out of the US.

    OTOH, with the EU pushing to divest itself of American software and policies, perhaps there’s still some wriggle room.

    OTOOH, because of the nature of the Fediverse, something like this can happen in theory:

    • You use a German-hosted instance → primarily subject to EU/GDPR
    • Your posts replicate to instances in other countries (including the US), which you don’t directly control (unless you self-host and block that)
    • Those servers operate under their own local laws
    • End result: your reposted data and meta data may now fall within the American legal domain.
  • SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.worldOPtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Lemmy vs Reddit
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    8 hours ago

    Good analogy.

    Yeah, I wonder that too. I think the mindshare Lemmy has (such as it is) comes from being seen as a sort of middle-finger, privacy-respecting, libre alternative.

    That positioning clearly attracts a lot of people (myself included). But at the same time, it’s occurred to me that the nature of the Fediverse means you can’t really have true “privacy.”

    I can’t speak to what each instance retains (IP logs? metadata?) or how long for - and I assume it varies widely from place to place.

    “Bad guy Reddit, good guy Lemmy” may be an oversimplification…or just wishful thinking.

  • SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.worldOPtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Lemmy vs Reddit
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    8 hours ago

    Oof, busted :)

    I had a feeling there were background trackers, even here.

    Your comment wrt LLM firehose is on point too I think.

    I do think the don’t be dumb is good advice (barring the famous quote from George Carlin) but given what you’ve just shown, it does sort of negate one of the appeals to self hosting a Lemmy instance. A lot of squeeze for not much more juice.

    I don’t know if this is a solvable problem but I’m willing to listen / learn.

  • SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.worldOPtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Its not much but it's something
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    23 hours ago

    I have tried TrackerControl. As a stand alone, I think its great. A little bit more verbose in its front end (and for some reason, a little more battery hungry than DDG) but similar functionality. The system app blocks are a good feature. As you say, the DDG option is simpler.

    Re: Firefox. Firefox has become very feature rich and heavy. On a 6 year old phone with 3GB ram, I can maybe get it to work smoothly with 4-5 tabs, whereas DDG has no issue with 20+. It would be my preference to use FF but it (and the usual forks) don’t seem too performant on my old beater.

    I’m curious to see how long I can keep it out of landfill. I’m trying for 2028, as a personal challenge. That will be almost 10 years out of a $200 phone