Each instance admin can check a box to require email. It reduces spam accounts and reduces work for admins because users can perform password resets themselves.
Each instance admin decides whether they require an email. Mine doesn’t, but it’s more important to choose an instance with admins you trust and not located in the US.
You don’t need an email with lemmy.org? what is wrong with the .world accounts?
How does one go about finding and installing a vpn on a computer and phone connection? Because half the vpn’s are themselves spying on users and selling the data to brokers I’ve heard, which rather defeats the purpose, especially as the government buys all data broker information.
On one of those I did notice that they didn’t allow people to post, I think it was just for the articles their preferred accounts posted or something. That was one of those world news ones.
Yeah they get very fussy and egotistical. The sort of people who were hall monitors as kids and never let anyone get away… except for their friends. Like the actual police. ACAB.
Every other post here I’ve seen is low key promoting violent revolution. So I’d imagine there’s at least one FBI agent hanging around and writing reports.
No. That is just the nature of public social media. It comes down what you choose to share when it comes to risk, so the same amount as reddit.
But, userbases who behave more like old school forums are more likely to not share personal stuff like other social media such as facebook, Instagram, tiktok, etc which have drawn people who want to publicly catalog their personal lives.
For actual privacy that’s better left to encrypted private messaging like signal and so on. Social media isn’t the place to expect privacy.
Are we safe here on Lemmy?
Lmfao no. Use a vpn, rotate your username, dont use personal emails.and definitely don’t get a .world account.
Use Lemmy.org. No emails needed. Don’t forget your password.
I’m new to Lemmy. Why does Lemmy.world require an email and Lemmy.org doesn’t? I assumed all the Lemmies and Piefeds and whatnots required an email.
Each instance admin can check a box to require email. It reduces spam accounts and reduces work for admins because users can perform password resets themselves.
Each instance admin decides whether they require an email. Mine doesn’t, but it’s more important to choose an instance with admins you trust and not located in the US.
Don’t use your real email regardless of instance.
You don’t need an email with lemmy.org? what is wrong with the .world accounts?
How does one go about finding and installing a vpn on a computer and phone connection? Because half the vpn’s are themselves spying on users and selling the data to brokers I’ve heard, which rather defeats the purpose, especially as the government buys all data broker information.
.world should be considered the US government. The mods and admins are more or less government simps. They are AT BEST “center” politics.
On one of those I did notice that they didn’t allow people to post, I think it was just for the articles their preferred accounts posted or something. That was one of those world news ones.
Yeah they get very fussy and egotistical. The sort of people who were hall monitors as kids and never let anyone get away… except for their friends. Like the actual police. ACAB.
Do you have a source for that? Genuinely asking, I use a VPN and would like to read more into it
Everything on Lemmy is public
True but who’s watching Lemmy?
Some things are more public than others. DMs are technically ‘on the internet’ as well, but they aren’t indexable by a search engine.
*chuckles*
anyone using any public facing website to organize a protest almost deserves to fall in my eyes.
Why hasn’t everyone downloaded signal yet?
Do you want to be my signal friend?
Every other post here I’ve seen is low key promoting violent revolution. So I’d imagine there’s at least one FBI agent hanging around and writing reports.
Federation and privacy don’t really go hand in hand
Assume all contacts are hostile and practice good OPSEC.
You are on a public forum, just like reddit. Anyone and everyone can read what you wrote, why would you think otherwise?
No. That is just the nature of public social media. It comes down what you choose to share when it comes to risk, so the same amount as reddit.
But, userbases who behave more like old school forums are more likely to not share personal stuff like other social media such as facebook, Instagram, tiktok, etc which have drawn people who want to publicly catalog their personal lives.
For actual privacy that’s better left to encrypted private messaging like signal and so on. Social media isn’t the place to expect privacy.