I’ve been feeling uneasy about the privacy implications of using Lemmy and similar platforms. The ability for anyone to view your entire posting history feels to me like publicly sharing my browser history. In contrast, most other social media platforms allow you to limit your feed visibility to just friends or followers.
I’m curious to hear from the community - what are the most private social media platforms you’ve come across? I vaguely remember stumbling upon one that automatically removed content after six months and had some other interesting privacy features. Can anyone refresh my memory or recommend some other private alternatives?
Well there is another kind of privacy concern that’s called “device fingerprinting”. If you decide you don’t want to have a public life anymore, you can disable/delete the account, change your online identity and, as long as you behave differently, nobody will guess it’s you. But when the website collects absolutely unnecessary data (such as location, mouse movements, login dates and browser fingerprints), it’s not as easy and in fact almost impossible