I wanted give a try to kbin.social but not sure how private is the instance, the interface looks really nice but im worried about its privacy and how private is compared with Lemmy?
Nothing on the fediverse is truly private. Treat everything you say as public and as permanent.
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What do you mean? Are private messages viewable by other users? Or other fediverse admins (that can also be everybody with a computer and a internet connection)
They are potentially viewable by admins since they’re not encrypted end to end and are stored in the database. It’s why there’s a warning message when you try to send someone a DM.
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I can reply from our Lemmy instance :-) I think it depends on how you post certain things. But mostly it’s public I guess
Mastodon and other Fediverse software have more options if it comes to privacy
oh hi Stux! big fan here! i been following you since plenty of time at mastodon ,thanks for the reply :)
It’s the fediverse. I don’t see how it would be any more or less “private”.
i still learning,but so far i deleted my reddit and twitter accounts and changed them for mastodon and lemmy,thanks for the reply!
Yeah as everyone else said, nothing in the Internet is truly private.
That said, I believe the fediverse is better for preventing use of your data because no one server/instance has all the data. This makes it harder to track and use your data across servers/instances.
There is also currently no advertising incentive for tracking user data, since there are no ads. Ublock Origin extension blocks 0 things here, which is a marvel on the internet.
I think it’d be possible in future for corporations to make their own federated instances, and those might have ads and/or more tracking? I’m no expert though.
I think there are trade-offs, but overall I feel good about it compared to all the corporate social media sites that we know are tracking and selling data, refusing to delete data, etc.
