I like using AntennaPod for podcasts and Spotify for music.
I like using AntennaPod for podcasts and Spotify for music.
It doesn’t make sense for Lemmy (or Mastodon) to send your IP to other instances. Without that IP, all they have is your username. They can’t really track you based on just the username.
What a wild conspiracy theory.
Legally, they can’t collect and process any of the data unless you accepted a contract with them. Just by sending an upvote or a comment to their instance, you don’t agree to any of this.
And if they choose to ignore the law and just do it anyway, they still can’t, because all they have is the data that your instance sends them. They don’t have your geo-location, device Id, etc.
Interesting. It seems that Lemmy can see Mastodon users and send private messages to them. And I believe Mastodon users can create Lemmy posts, so potentially Threads users could do that too once Meta enables two-way communication.
I’m in favor of federation. The point of federated networks isn’t that there are no evil corporations, but rather that they can’t cause damage.
What Facebook can do:
What they can’t do:
I think this is mostly relevant for Mastodon servers due to the format of the content, but the arguments are the same.
You can simply not follow people on Threads and you will have no Threads content in your feed
In the case of Meta, they acquired a small company with that name many years before. Makes me wonder if they also bought something called Threads before.
It seems like it ignores that setting. Or maybe it just doesn’t save it. Whenever I come back to that page, it’s back to “Local”.
The political ideas you can find on Reddit are much more diverse. There is usually at least some pushback against some of the most deranged statements.