But the advantage is that Lemmy allows Tor. 😅
Thats exactly why I am using lemmy exclusively for brand awareness
Considering how new anonymity is for the human race, it amazes me how people treat it like a crucial element of life. Civilization mostly lacked it for thousands of years because almost everybody lived in villages or small towns - about half the people in the world still do.
These days it is either full anonymity or surveillance state
Tech does that
You may not have been anonymous to the people in your immediate community, but you were largely anonymous to the people outside of it, which is something that has been systematically dismantled in various ways through history. Even things as basic as last names are there to make you visible to outsiders.
From Seeing Like a State, p59:
The invention of permanent, inherited patronyms was, after the administrative simplification of nature (for example, the forest) and space (for example, land tenure), the last step in establishing the necessary preconditions of modern statecraft. In almost every case it was a state project, designed to allow officials to identify, unambiguously, the majority of its citizens. When successful, it went far to create a legible people. 38 Tax and tithe rolls, property rolls, conscription lists, censuses, and property deeds recognized in law were inconceivable without some means of fixing an individual’s identity and linking him or her to a kin group. Campaigns to assign permanent patronyms have typically taken place, as one might expect, in the context of a state’s exertions to put its fiscal system on a sounder and more lucrative footing.
IMO the felt anonymity of Reddit, that comes from the fact that hardly anyone cares to remember your username and you don’t directly experience scrutiny, isn’t that useful. What really matters is the potential for someone to look over everything you’ve written (and if they have administrator access, connect that to IP, email, browser fingerprint etc.), and use that information for their own purposes, regardless of their having any connection to or legitimate personal interest in you. In that respect, Lemmy isn’t much better (it kind of can’t be when the premise is publicly posting writing to the internet), but it isn’t worse either.
Its impossible to delete anything on the fediverse
Its easier to edit than to delete. So if you want something gone you should edit it first
There’s a chance your edits won’t propagate to all instances though.
It’s impossible to delete anything on the internet. You can’t control everybody’s backups.
What happens on the internet stays on the internet. As in “it doesn’t go away”
Except things you desperately need 10+ years later. Those are gone.
I wish this weren’t so true 😭
Why is it always the trash that gets preserved??
Now there are my nudes and other things somewhere out there. Just great…
I think I have your nudes lying around here somewhere…gimme a minute
But I’m not Fascism, please don’t fuck me 😭
I think the internet at large should be viewed this way and the Fediverse is no exception. It’s almost impossible to completely get rid of anything that isn’t under your direct and immediate control - i.e. your own personal email server. I don’t assume that Lemmy/Fediverse is any different.
That said, with the effort to be ”not Reddit” or just another social media platform ready to be potentially abused, focus should be placed on privacy and user ownership and their ability to control their data on the platform.
I have a feeling everyone knows who I am, and those who don’t haven’t blocked me yet.
it’s fine. I’m not going to apologize for my opinions because that’s somehow worse than defending unpopular opinions.
I’d rather be the person who owns their hill and dies for it than someone who runs from hill to hill because the group thinks it sucks.
I mean, you just mentioned that. Of course someone will disagree, but most probably wont bother. I just wanna know, do you exclude gaining a new perspective from this? Because I’m exceedingly strong willed when encountering illogical or otherwise short sighted points. But sometimes folks just show me a new perspective and I am compelled to agree. Doesnt happen often except in tech questions but here we are.
I am completely open to new perspectives and have changed my position based on someone else’s opinions. that’s just how we learn and grow.
I will not change my opinion because someone said it’s dumb or personally attacks me. if anything, I’ll double down on that hill just to spite them.
People love to jump to personal attacks instead of actually explaining themselves
When people do that I often think I said something that hits home, but they don’t want to admit.
I’m always down to hear a new perspective
I get the impression that some people choose to believe something because it makes them feel good instead of because it is logical.
In that case I’m glad we met. Have a nice day. :)
I know what you mean. When I know what I’m talking about, I am also strong willed. My primary issue is when people come at me with an attitude from the jump. If someone approaches me with normal conversational respect, even if they are a capitalist or something, I am happy to have a cordial chat; if it’s rude from the get go? I will tell them they deserve the death penalty.
Tech issues are a little easier, but those tend to be proffered by the most obnoxious morons who also need to be put in their place by their superiors. People who say stuff like “decimate means reduced by 10%” and pretend technical decisions are entirely objective.
Confidently incorrect crowd has entered the chat (me)
Oh, you maple syrup monsoon
From my experience there is only one poster. They are very angry.
Sorry, Lemmy is just me and my 500 alts
Oh, you salty spring chicken
Oh, you sweet summer child.
I’ve only seen “you sweet summer child” a handful of times on Lemmy
Does that mean my grandma was the OG memer? Bless your hearts.
I would like to see a lot less of it
Username checks out
I get a weird thing where a VPN connection sometimes doesn’t let me post or respond.
Ah, its lemmy.world being a dick.
Hop over to like… just about any other instance
I’m going to be honest, I hopped over during the r-api thing and I haven’t really explored much, just use the sync app. I can view other instances but I guess I’ll have to figure out how to add them to the default
reddit actually shadowbans people for using VPN, from my understanding most other platform like meta will do the same.
I don’t know a lot of people in my small town and I don’t know you!
It’s the same with every small forum tbh
Typical Magnus comment.
Praise
KierKlear!💜 Klear
Oh, you bitter elder of autumn.
Oh, you savory smarch centenarian…
who do you think you are I am
