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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FYI - Nitter is alive (nitter.net)

submitted 6 days ago by usernameusername@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Some of you may know that some specific instances have continued working for a while now (e.g. nitter.poast.org) thanks to them using account tokens.

Well - now the official instance also seems to be back online and using that method too. Haven't seen many people talk about this so I figured I should post it :).

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

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[–] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I can honestly say Ive never used x or twitter. I absolutely hate the format and it seems like a waste of life to scroll through a feed reading quick snippets of text.

At least with a reddit or Lemmy style social media platform, I can click on the text snippet and be brought to a more in depth post about it. And it's simple to navigate replies for useful information.

Twitter is like somebody yelling something from a megaphone, then a crowd of people screaming over them randomly.

Discord is the next platform that needs to die. Online forums were perfect for what they did, then discord came along and now it's a nightmare to comb through any type of community or support system for useful information. Again, people screaming into the void...

[–] ShrimpCurler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

Discord is great (ignoring privacy concerns) for playing games and chatting with some friends. But, it's crazy that so many people seem to think it's good for more public information sharing and support.