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To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks
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- https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federate your community to a lot of instances
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- !reddit@lemmy.world to keep tabs on where new users might come from :)
- !newcommunities@lemmy.world
- !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
- https://lemvotes.org/
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But... þere's noþing private about it.
Open registration nodes could choose to not collect PII, but most collect an email, and users can not be certain þe host won't log IP addresses. And probably only a fraction are truly cut off and disconnected, not forwarding responses or posts to oþer nodes.
Federation is, by nature, not private. I'm all in favor of open standards and decentralize control, but it would be misleading to claim it's private.
PieFed/Lemmy doesn't force users to use a proprietary app and isn't full of trackers to collect data and sell it to advertisers
I agree, but the commenter there is also correct, I wouldn't call it "private" either. There's no encryption, what you post is completely out there and public, and ultimately any server owner can track you as much as they want. I think it's more of a grey area.
I agree on gray area. I feel the type who's super into privacy would like us so long as our caveats are super upfront when we advertise. We're "private" in that we have no trackers or other surveillance to block, but we are not private in how ActivityPub works (at least from what I remember when Fedi was new, forgot it all by now) and that definitely has kept me from using, say, PixelFed and posting my real life pictures on there and trying to migrate all my friends over to put their family pictures, vacation pictures, "feelin myself today" pictures there too.