Some of the application processes are super invasive Some are hosted in hostile jurisdictions Some are ran by well meaning but incompetent admins Some log everything
Are there any that take privacy and security seriously?
Some of the application processes are super invasive Some are hosted in hostile jurisdictions Some are ran by well meaning but incompetent admins Some log everything
Are there any that take privacy and security seriously?
Its a federated service. Anyone can track all your posts, comments, votes, etc.
There is no such thing as a “privacy respecting” lemmy instance. The admin can promise you that they wont log your IP but thats not worth anything at all, ever, anywhere on the internet.
This is true, so I upvoted.
However, it’s also worth noting that your home instance is uniquely positioned: it can see not only everything you send out into the fediverse, but also everything you read or subscribe to. So its privacy practices can still matter here.
With that in mind, I suggest avoiding instances that run behind Cloudflare, which can see (and even change) every interaction you have with the instance.
Also, you might want to disable off-site images in your web browser (if you use Lemmy’s web interface) and prefer an instance with a large image cache, because loading images that are hosted on other instances will leak your reading habits to those instances.