cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/715287

Guess where? Unironically r/Save3rdPartyApps

The Reddit search for Lemmy also gives these privacy copy-pasta as top results when searching for Lemmy. I’m still betting that Reddit employees are involved in boosting these posts.

  • LvxferreEnglish
    17•2 years ago

    That’s actually hilarious. Once you analyse it, it boils down to three things:

    1. Ad hominem towards the devs. It’s so idiotic that I won’t waste my time with it.
    2. Conflation of the flagship instance (lemmy.ml) with the platform as a whole. As if you had to use lemmy.ml to use the platform (you don’t).
    3. Incorrectly assigning privacy concerns of social media as a whole to Lemmy in specific.

    The third point actually deserves some clarification: no matter if it’s Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Mastodon, Lemmy or any other sort of social media, you should be extra careful with what you share, as it might eventually bite you back. It is public communication, treat it as such; it is not private conversation. Regardless of Lemmy storing it or not, consider what you share publicly with the internet as potentially staying forever, and be mindful with it.

    So all three points are actually invalid. This might convince some irrationals to stay clear off the platform, but frankly? This is actually good for people here.

    • 7heoEnglish
      7•2 years ago

      Very well said.

      Two remarks however:

      While every social network collects user data, that is an inherent design requirement, only Lemmy lets you see what they have on you, at all times. I personally prefer that to a system where spez and the like have to be trusted with it…

      And also, they (the reddit staff) conflate a flagship instance with the network because they know they (the reddit crowd) actually often cannot understand the difference.

      Edit: rephrased to make explicit who I meant by “they”.

      • LvxferreEnglish
        3•2 years ago

        Yup - and there’s always the issue with third parties storing this info. Reddit has been archived, for example; so no matter what Reddit Inc. does with your data, it’s still “on the internet”.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•2 years ago

        I suspect they do, in fact, understand the difference. And are intentionally conflating lemmy the platform with lemmy.ml the instance in order to dissuade people from using the platform, since they know that most people new to the platform wouldn’t understand the distinction.

        • 7heoEnglish
          1•2 years ago

          Alright, yes, I should have been more precise. You are absolutely correct, they as the reddit staff hopefully understands the difference. I meant the second they as “the reddit crowd at large”, and I hate myself for having changed the meaning of the word mid-sentence. I’ll go edit that now, before being unable to refrain from slapping myself out of disappointment.