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I like how the original OP mention in passing that Reddit it bad from privacy.

Like, no shit? How can a privacy community be even remotedly healthy in such an environment?

It’s like having a club for how to avoid the police within a prison, regulated by the guards.

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OP is the original OP. Probably. Reddit poster’s name is the same as the Lemmy poster’s name.

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If you only talk about privacy on already private platforms, it will become a circlejerk in no time. You need to tell people who have no interest/experience in online privacy about it so you can further the cause. This is similar to why the FSF is on Twitter/X.

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I guess having something in there is good but it’s inherently an issue when the topic at hand is acting outside survelliance.

Let’s say, for example, things escalate and reddit get fully weaponized for the benefit of one side, and they start pushing for known compromised VPNs. How can you fight that if pepole got into the habit of trusting such platform?

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You tell them Reddit is not trustworthy and they should move out, of course. I am not denying that. I am saying the r/privacy community should not be dead because Reddit is a popular platform whether you like it or not, and people need to be informed about their right to privacy even on a known hostile platform.

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While I hate Reddit isn’t the fediverse basically horrible for privacy? It’s super easy to see everyone’s posts and IP addresses no? I thought anyone could basically download everything with very little effort and do whatever they want with it.

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Yea, that is a good thing, nobody owns the info like this, it is public domain, as a place like this should be, in my opinion.

If you want private communities, I think matrix spaces are a great independent solution.

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Yep. Still going in a better direction than Reddit though.

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better direction for what?

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Reddit was open source until 2017, and one of the founders was Aaron Schwartz. So it didn’t look like that for a long time.

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I guess we all know it, since we are interested in Privacy and not clueless enough to be on Reddit (anymore?).

The degeneration from a “safe” place to what it is now is what makes it particoularly egregious a place to avoid for anybody serious about privacy…

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2017 was 7 year ago, Aaron died 11 years ago. There are a lot younger users who can’t remember these things.

Let’s see a 20 years old university student was 13 when the source was closed down, I think it’s not easy to find a 13 years old who is familiar with such legal things.

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Browsing reddit while using a VPN is verboten.

Good grief I despise that smug, winking snoo with a effing fedora that goes along with the error page.

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I could’ve written a Tailscale App Connector to route it through the home connection, but I ended up blocking their domains outright and writing some CSS rules to hide Reddit from SearXNG results. It’s better than that annoying page.

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wut? I VPN all the time (for niche stuff Lemmy’s not there yet with).

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16 points

woah there pardner!

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11 points

Better than me getting shadow banned from reddit for using one, I appealed back then

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first time? I was banned from reddit entirely 8 times

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yeah, seems like they really don’t want site visits or something! oh well, its cooler here.

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Untraceable visitors are worth nothing. From a cynical point of view, better off without them.

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