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How are Tumblr and Discord re surveillance? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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These and Instagram seem to be the main locii of conversation for a topic I'm interested in. Instagram is a no because Meta. Just trying to keep myself off of the big data mining sites and search results are a bit of a hot mess.

Edit: Please, no more splaining how there isn’t any privacy on the net. There’s what can be scraped, what can be gathered from cookies (which I’m as careful as I can be about), and there’s what we make it easy for corporations to collect by using their products. I’m asking about the latter for Discord and Tumblr. It’s not that I’m unaware of the general problem (otherwise I wouldn’t be asking), it’s just that I’m out of the loop on specifics for these sites.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah so basically anything do in social media, any social media, is going to not be private in any way. There's no way around it. The big difference Lemmy makes is that it's not developed with data mining or profit in mind, so you are (somewhat more) safe from shitty changes to the platform that could compromise your privacy or just make experience worse (like mtx or ads). You can use the platform using a browser or application that doesn't spy on you.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think there's some confusion in your post. You have zero privacy on this platform. Lemmy has zero privacy at all. Activity pub publishes everything you do to everyone in the world. It is a perfect platform for data miners. You were literally being spied on 100% for everything you do on Lemmy.

Which is fine, because it's the public square. But I want you to understand that. It's very important. Lemmy is actually worse for privacy than meta.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That's what I said, first sentence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is “everything you do” including everything you look at and all of the telemetry? I assume that’s client dependent. And would be surprised if any Lemmy clients are doing that kind of thing. Everything you post being public is one thing. But I’ve always found the behavioral telemetry more offensive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's all visible to your instance administrator. If you're on an instance of only a few people then anyone can see what that instance subscribes to.

Your upvotes and downvoats are also public

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I still think I’m pretty ok with that. In comparison to trying to correlate how long I look at something and my scrolling patterns and build this into a larger profile with finger printing and ip’s.