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Adding PieFed/Lemmy to lists of privacy options could raise awareness of its existance (lemmy.zip)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/fedigrow@lemmy.zip

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I've seen PrivacyPack go Viral on subs like r/deGoogle etc.

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 9 months ago

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

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 stated above. Saying that they are not private is just going to deter potential new joiners to give them a try.