Privacy Guides @lemmy.one Lyxea @lemmy.world 1y ago

Is Kbin private? and how private is compared to Lemmy?

I wanted give a try to kbin.social but not sure how private is the instance, the interface looks really nice but im worried about its privacy and how private is compared with Lemmy?

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Nothing on the fediverse is truly private. Treat everything you say as public and as permanent.
- i see,thanks for the repply,i appreciate it!
- What do you mean? Are private messages viewable by other users? Or other fediverse admins (that can also be everybody with a computer and a internet connection)
  
  They are potentially viewable by admins since they're not encrypted end to end and are stored in the database. It's why there's a warning message when you try to send someone a DM.
It's the fediverse. I don't see how it would be any more or less "private".
- i still learning,but so far i deleted my reddit and twitter accounts and changed them for mastodon and lemmy,thanks for the reply!
  
  Yeah as everyone else said, nothing in the Internet is truly private.
  
  That said, I believe the fediverse is better for preventing use of your data because no one server/instance has all the data. This makes it harder to track and use your data across servers/instances.
I can reply from our Lemmy instance :-) I think it depends on how you post certain things. But mostly it's public I guess

Mastodon and other Fediverse software have more options if it comes to privacy
- oh hi Stux! big fan here! i been following you since plenty of time at mastodon ,thanks for the reply :)
  
  Most welcome! <3 You make me blush..

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