For real? That's.. odd. The internet's a very edgy place. What sort of class/grade recommended?
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2026
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It’s for a college writing class, we’re exploring privacy, or lack there of, in online communities. The assignment is to join a community of our choice on lemmy because of its anonymity and explore digital identity. While at the same time we’re reading the novel 1984 and connecting it to modern day privacy concerns.
oops! lemmy is not anonymous any more than any major website unless you take preventative measures.
A college course reading Orwell? That's rad. I'm a tin foil hat type of person and I've gotta say, attaching to the internet alone is already pretty heinous. Even your ISP is monitoring your DNS requests, selling the info, keeping records, etc- all before a person so much as logs in to a website/platform.
IMO the hellscape of 1984 is nothing compared to what's going on in the real world.
…and what sort of questions?
Welcome Sunfish! Are you studying Sociology?
A better place to post general questions is here: https://lemmus.org/c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
Just so you have an understanding of the lack of interaction with this question, Lemmy has less than 50,000 monthly active users.
The Fediverse as a whole is also small compared to the top social media sites. It's about a million active users per month.
This site helps break down the stats.
Fridays and Saturdays usually see more engagment. You can also try these communites.
!asklemmy@lemmy.ml !justpost@lemmy.world !general@lemmy.world
You've found /c/DIY , which is about, like, fixing your garbage disposal. So if you want to talk about remodelling a house, then yes, you are in the right place. For general questions, though, you should probably look for a different community.
No. RTFM.