should we just quit using these sites or what?
Yes.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
7 points (100.0% liked)
Privacy Guides
16784 readers
29 users here now
In the digital age, protecting your personal information might seem like an impossible task. We’re here to help.
This is a community for sharing news about privacy, posting information about cool privacy tools and services, and getting advice about your privacy journey.
You can subscribe to this community from any Kbin or Lemmy instance:
Check out our website at privacyguides.org before asking your questions here. We've tried answering the common questions and recommendations there!
Want to get involved? The website is open-source on GitHub, and your help would be appreciated!
This community is the "official" Privacy Guides community on Lemmy, which can be verified here. Other "Privacy Guides" communities on other Lemmy servers are not moderated by this team or associated with the website.
Moderation Rules:
- We prefer posting about open-source software whenever possible.
- This is not the place for self-promotion if you are not listed on privacyguides.org. If you want to be listed, make a suggestion on our forum first.
- No soliciting engagement: Don't ask for upvotes, follows, etc.
- Surveys, Fundraising, and Petitions must be pre-approved by the mod team.
- Be civil, no violence, hate speech. Assume people here are posting in good faith.
- Don't repost topics which have already been covered here.
- News posts must be related to privacy and security, and your post title must match the article headline exactly. Do not editorialize titles, you can post your opinions in the post body or a comment.
- Memes/images/video posts that could be summarized as text explanations should not be posted. Infographics and conference talks from reputable sources are acceptable.
- No help vampires: This is not a tech support subreddit, don't abuse our community's willingness to help. Questions related to privacy, security or privacy/security related software and their configurations are acceptable.
- No misinformation: Extraordinary claims must be matched with evidence.
- Do not post about VPNs or cryptocurrencies which are not listed on privacyguides.org. See Rule 2 for info on adding new recommendations to the website.
- General guides or software lists are not permitted. Original sources and research about specific topics are allowed as long as they are high quality and factual. We are not providing a platform for poorly-vetted, out-of-date or conflicting recommendations.
Additional Resources:
- EFF: Surveillance Self-Defense
- Consumer Reports Security Planner
- Jonah Aragon (YouTube)
- r/Privacy
- Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
We don't need reddit, reddit needs us. Just move on and be done with the platform. Just create new habits with Lemmy and reddit should slowly fade away from your mind. If we give alternatives some time, I'm sure great content will emerge and crazy shit like the three days no poop challenge will happen more over time.
I am personally very optimistic.
So I just visited reddit for the first time since June 30th because of this post. Opened a private window, typed reddit.com. It loaded fine. What makes you think you need an account to "view any of the datat that exists on" reddit?
because teddit is faster, lighter and looks better than stock reddit site
also to prevent trackers, ads and unnecessary JS that bloats and slows down the browser
While I appreciate the response the logic doesn't check out. You can view the content. You don't need an account unless you want to use your own viewer. This post was misleading.
Given your response other people's answer to just not visit reddit is correct.
I quit twitter when Elmo bought it and quit reddit when they announced their new pricing model. lemmy and mastodon are great!
Quitting from sites you despise is a better option than hopping from frontend to frontend in my view.
That's not quite true. I self-host libreddit and it continues to work fine. The public instances with many users will not work because of the new API limits, but if you run one yourself, it should continue to work.
That said, I've mostly switched over to lemmy and mastodon and haven't had a need to go to reddit or twitter.
Teddit doesn't hold any data. It's "data" was reddit. It's developers think that when you use the free key for 60 requests per second, that it will probably be enough.
Libreddit is trying to use the private Reddit API . Which is currently being used by the official Reddit app.
Running Teddit using a free key seems fairly usable, as long as you are self hosting an instance. Libreddits's approach tries to bring back the old situation
Projects will deviate and find ways to be useful again.
Libreddit works fine for me.
Reddit and Twitter are next. There's nothing more to gain from using them.
Because I don't want to feed your addiction I will not let you know which 3rd party apps will work because FUCK SPEZ nobody should ever go back lol.
Damn, check out this guy with his fancy embedded meme into his comment.