Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

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Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
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Which is most privacy friendly instance of lemmy? (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 day ago by admin@lemmy.today to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/24809302

also i can't self-host.

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[–] admin@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I want to make sure that I don't get doxxed at any cost.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don’t give your email address, or use a throwaway one when you join.
Pick a username that’s unrelated to any others you’ve used.
Use a VPN.
Don’t reveal personal details in posts & comments.

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 1 points 1 day ago

Not all lemmy ibstances allow vpn. Some block it.

[–] lucid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago

This just boils down to basic opsec. Be careful what you post/comment, continue to use a generic username, stuff like that.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

in addition to what others have said, also have your browser fingerprint as fairly generic, and what is unique should ideally be randomised upon each start of your browser. There's nothing stopping a Lemmy instance from running clientside code that gathers your browser fingerprint, and if they are well-resourced enough to have access to fingerprint data from other sites, they could correlate it to de-anonymise you.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Not a likely scenario but still possible. If one is serious about not getting “doxxed at any cost,” consider Mullvad browser.

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Just follow the basic social media rules and you'll be fine. Also don't trust anything that is clickable unless you hover over the link/copy it to some text editor.