Which is most privacy friendly instance of lemmy?
from admin@lemmy.today to privacy@lemmy.ml on 02 Mar 19:29
https://lemmy.today/post/24812558

cross-posted from: lemmy.today/post/24809302

also i can’t self-host.

#privacy

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bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net on 02 Mar 19:36 next collapse

No instance is privacy friendly, literally all activity here is public by definition.

Telorand@reddthat.com on 02 Mar 19:39 collapse

And to further clarify, even DMs aren’t technically private, they’re just hidden.

Dave@lemmy.nz on 02 Mar 19:45 next collapse

Supporting this, Lemmy encourages people not to use DMs and wants people to add Matrix user details to their profile instead.

Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works on 03 Mar 00:42 collapse

They do it the right way.

HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml on 03 Mar 02:50 collapse

A DM is literally just like @ing someone on Mastodon and setting the visibility to that user only. It’s just unlisted. If you were the instance admin or otherwise knew the ID of the DM, you can find it.

davel@lemmy.ml on 02 Mar 19:42 next collapse

I guess you didn’t get satisfactory answers from your first post, but you still haven’t clarified what you actually mean by your question. All Lemmy servers run Lemmy, so in some senses of the term, they’re all roughly equally private, which is to say not very, because all posts & comments are publicly scrapable, except for private messages.

lemmy.ml:

A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers

What is Lemmy.ml

admin@lemmy.today on 02 Mar 20:02 collapse

I want to make sure that I don’t get doxxed at any cost.

lucid@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 02 Mar 20:13 next collapse

This just boils down to basic opsec. Be careful what you post/comment, continue to use a generic username, stuff like that.

davel@lemmy.ml on 02 Mar 20:24 next collapse

  1. Don’t give your email address, or use a throwaway one when you join.
  2. Pick a username that’s unrelated to any others you’ve used.
  3. Use a VPN.
  4. Don’t reveal personal details in posts & comments.
HelloRoot@lemy.lol on 02 Mar 21:34 collapse

Not all lemmy ibstances allow vpn. Some block it.

communism@lemmy.ml on 02 Mar 20:45 next collapse

in addition to what others have said, also have your browser fingerprint as fairly generic, and what is unique should ideally be randomised upon each start of your browser. There’s nothing stopping a Lemmy instance from running clientside code that gathers your browser fingerprint, and if they are well-resourced enough to have access to fingerprint data from other sites, they could correlate it to de-anonymise you.

davel@lemmy.ml on 02 Mar 21:51 collapse

Not a likely scenario but still possible. If one is serious about not getting “doxxed at any cost,” consider Mullvad browser.

DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml on 02 Mar 20:47 collapse

Just follow the basic social media rules and you’ll be fine. Also don’t trust anything that is clickable unless you hover over the link/copy it to some text editor.

sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today on 02 Mar 22:50 next collapse

Lemmy.today is a very neutral instance

admin@lemmy.today on 03 Mar 18:32 collapse

Umm

Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works on 03 Mar 00:41 next collapse

Brother the protocol is called activity pub(lic)

mox@lemmy.sdf.org on 03 Mar 01:30 collapse

Look for an instance with these qualities:

  • Does not use Cloudflare or any other large content delivery network. Instances that use thse allow the CDN to monitor everything your read and write on Lemmy, which can reveal a lot about you even if you haven’t used your real name. Cloudflare can then correlate that information with your other browsing habits, and possibly your real identity, because they operate as a middleman for a huge number of popular web sites.
  • Maintains a sizable local image cache. Images served from other instances instead of your local one can be abused by remote parties to track what is viewed on Lemmy with your IP address (and sometimes your browser signature). Alternatively, you could block off-site images using a browser extension, but that would mean not getting to see as many pictures.