Strypey#TIL #PrivacyTools.io have a #Discourse (forum.privacytools.io) and a #Mastodon instance:
https://social.privacytools.io/public
Great to see the team creating replacements for their use of #DataFarms like Reddit and the birdsite.
cowan@strypey New to #PrivacyTools and I am curious what you mean by Reddit being a data farm. What data are they collecting on users?
@cowan I haven't studied this in detail, but here are some facts:
1) Reddit has ads. Ads = tracking and data collection.
2) Reddit used to release their server code under a #FreeCode license. Not anymore. I suspect because of the move to ads
If you really want to know, read the fine print of the Reddit ToS, Privacy Policy etc. I tend to assume that any internet platform that's heavily VC-funded or owned by corporate shareholders is a #DataFarm unless there's a good reason to think otherwise.
Activist@strypey @cowan #Reddit is centralized on #Amazon #AWS & has a rampant censorship problem w/ #shadowbanning. Sorry to necropost but thought the bigger Reddit issues should be on the record. Since a yr ago, #Lemmy has emerged as a #freesoftware #decentralized replacement for Reddit.
@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo
#Lemmy is one of a number of federated Reddit-a-like projects. See the 'Link-sharing, Forum, and Group Apps' category here:
https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/-/wikis/watchlist-for-activitypub-apps
We checked them again recently, for possible inclusion on the front page of fediverse.party, but none are production-ready yet.
@cowan
