Thanks!

Oh but getting sucked into random bullshit is what they want

Same

It’s type 2 fun. You don’t want to do it, but you’re glad you did when you do

Can a brother get a tl;dr?

It’s funny because Facebook was the original dumpster fire

I was kind of joking, but now that I think about it isn’t that better? The problem isn’t really advertisers having your data, it’s companies doing skeezy things to be able to make more money with your data.

This way, instance hosts are free from that incentive and can just focus on making a good website.

I was kind of joking, but now that I think about it isn’t that better? The problem isn’t really advertisers having your data, it’s companies doing skeezy things to be able to make more money with your data.

This way, instance hosts are free from that incentive and can just focus on making a good website.

Can someone explain why r/privacy is so up in arms about this? Seems fairly obvious that my actions in the public domain are public, but they’re all “Lemmy doesn’t care about your privacy”. Why?

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/144clka/warning_lemmy_federated_reddit_clone_doesnt_care/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1

At least you know the instance host isn’t selling your data right? The advertisers already have it 🤪

Lol yeah but we were 12 back then and we still understood the internet better than anyone else 🙃