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What's reddit? Is that like a new alternative to Lemmy? ;P
It's a good thing that free discussion doesn't equate a mindless popularity contest. Oh wait, on Reddit it does, my bad ..
I like how the original OP mention in passing that Reddit is bad for privacy.
Like, no shit? How can a privacy community be even remotedly healthy in such an environment?
It's like having a club for how to avoid the police within a prison, regulated by the guards.
Browsing reddit while using a VPN is verboten.
Good grief I despise that smug, winking snoo with a effing fedora that goes along with the error page.
Reddit was open source until 2017, and one of the founders was Aaron Schwartz. So it didn't look like that for a long time.
I guess we all know it, since we are interested in Privacy and not clueless enough to be on Reddit (anymore?).
The degeneration from a "safe" place to what it is now is what makes it particoularly egregious a place to avoid for anybody serious about privacy...
2017 was 7 year ago, Aaron died 11 years ago. There are a lot younger users who can't remember these things.
Let's see a 20 years old university student was 13 when the source was closed down, I think it's not easy to find a 13 years old who is familiar with such legal things.
No but it's much easier to find the 20 years old student interested in privacy that realyze right now that reddit is not open source...
Reddit basically has a completely new userbase. It's not only by age of user. I don't think people have really appreciated the rate of attrition has been near total. The old userbase of tech savvy STEM college degree holders have effectively abandoned the platform.
They've managed to sell the platform on a whole new set of users. So it looks like the site has kept on plugging along. But really reddit has successfully relaunched itself. Based on the idiosyncratic lingo I see most often. The bulk of users came from Facebook. They don't know the traditional redditisms so they use vernacular from the platforms they've migrated from.
in 2017 my biggest concerns were that whether i can play PS3 with broken hand or not (i could)
While I hate Reddit isn’t the fediverse basically horrible for privacy? It’s super easy to see everyone’s posts and IP addresses no? I thought anyone could basically download everything with very little effort and do whatever they want with it.
Yea, that is a good thing, nobody owns the info like this, it is public domain, as a place like this should be, in my opinion.
If you want private communities, I think matrix spaces are a great independent solution.
My guess is, the people who care didn’t stick around. As s result, quality went down.
Nerdy communities always seem to attract some very opinionated people, which is a turn off for people just trying to do better.
Tbh I am done with reddit as a whole, back then a lot of mods were power tripping, but now most of them are. You can't say anything, do anything, it would be better for them if no one would even visit their communities.
It was a terrible sub for years much before the apicalypse. It was full of apple fanboys who believed every marketing bullshit.
Apple fanboys pollute privacy comms on this side of social media too, tbh :/
They gave meta information like IP to the government in Switzerland, where they are based, after the government forced them to with a court order. Not the encrypted mail, mind you, because they can’t do that, just the additional information they have on a user like email and IP.
Because of that, a lot of redditers on r/privacy think they spy on their users for the US government. It’s a stretch, yes, but you have to remember they take turns using the one brain they collectively have.
Yeah I agree, sounds a bit excessive. If that's correct, it doesn't sound like they're reading your data and at the end of the day they have to comply with things like warrants. Thanks for the clarification.
It is all also very clearly stated in the information they must collect in order to provide their service. There should’ve been no surprises here, as you must assume that scenarios like these will happen eventually.
If all they have on you is your optional backup email and your IP, I think they're doing pretty well in the no data-collecting part?
Well, you don’t even need to provide an email or phone number when you sign up, so if you access the site via their onion address every time, they would have no information on you at all.
I guess the issue here is overselling the safety of the service. Wouldn't rely on them encrypting the mail for you, for example. It's probably fine if you treat it just like you would any other email service - assuming you're fine with being unable to use a mail client at all on the free plan and using it in a weird roundabout way on the paid plans.
But.. basically every email provider or hosting service is legally obliged to give the information they collect to the government. It's not like this is exclusive to Proton in any way whatsoever. If anything, subpoenas are evidence Proton tell the truth and do at least stop themselves from having most of the important data so they can't give it away.
I don't think OP was trying to say Proton Mail is bad or insecure. Rather the opposite.
Privacy wise? Probably nothing. The company engages in shitty behavior, though, and will try to upsell you even if you're a paying costumer. I switched to Tuta because of that, and then Tuta started doing all the same bs...
High level summary: A bunch of nerds got into a slapfight about who's project is less secure, or who's project is run by the feds. Some guys got doxxed or swatted, a few stepped away from their projects and left social media, and that's about where we are today. It's largely a bunch of clout-chasing nonsense.
Oh I remember r/privacy, this comment is spot on. You expect something like the Linux communities where it is okay what ever you prefer. But privacy-nerds sometimes goes the spying government/tech-firms rabbit-hole to deep.
Can't Linux communities be just as bad? There's constant bickering over systemd, snaps, canonical, red hat.
I also got DMs asking why it's removed or if I got banned, + someone asking and saying in topic it's the 3rd in short time.
i can agree on a few stuff, and can't on some others. I just choose the most private options aviable that still serve the purpose i use them for. Like if you can find something on Google Play, Aurora, F-droid, obviously, it is better to download from f-droid, but if you have a bit more time, it is even better to download from source or even compile it yourself. But it always upsets me when people ask for privacy tips when using ios or windows, like are you joking or what? ditch those lol. And obviously, as a gamer, i wouldn't use purist linux oses, like PureOS, because it can have serious issues with games. But i won't buy nvidia if i want to game on linux, when i can get amd with open-source drivers on distros like Garuda. So i think a reasonable privacy can't hurt anyone, but moving on just the next little step or going into the extremes are both not good ideas
I can't recommend downloading from sources to normal people, and the problem is no, one step after step is better, as you can't have a perfect solution for privacy btw, but moving from one service to one service lets say in one day, week or maybe even month is not realistic. Its like recommending a password manager, great, but then saying theres immediat need to change all password... Like, technically true, but realisticly, bank and mail firsts, then step by step some passwords, without forgeting new accounts should have now strong passwords.
As I said, ie my girlfriend knowing Im interested into privacy tell me that she just installed and created a protonmail account and she used Drive a bit, if I just say thats useless because there need compartimentalization and Proton gave IP to police, thats fckd up
The most private, the most secure option isn't for everyone, first to threat model, second to personnal daily life
A person interested can still have Gafam apps, for some needs, required, but can limit the settings.
If you are a gamer, you mostly still need Windows computer (Linux got better and better, depends on games tho), then you can choose to say fck, or you can use it with limiting the stuff you can (turning off maximum settings you can, OsU10, etc.). Thats the same with iOS.. Most people wont buy right now a new phone because of privacy, but maybe the next in few months or in 2 years ; doesnt mean during this period you can't choose apps to use, turning off iOS features, etc..
For some projects I needed TikTok, I wrote myself a guide, to use it as anonymous as possible, to TikTok and to people, instead of using it raw, defaults
for gaming, i will buy very capable hardware. ryzen 7 7th or ryzen 9 7th series cpu, 32gb 6000mhz ddr5 ram, 3000mb/s SSDs, rx 7800 xt. On proton db, these devices tend to have good scores. Also i don't play with ANY competitive games at all, so don't have to worry about anticheat. I should be fine then, right? Without dualbooting, that complicates things to an unnecessary degree
Only reason I'd recommend signal to anyone is that its one of the few encrypted apps that doesnt have awful onboarding. A boomer can figure it out.
I ditched reddit, and what's being described in this thread is largely part if why I left. I won't go back.
