Petition to rename lemmy world what they actually are, Reddit on lemmy - eviltoast
    • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.mlOPM
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      16
      ·
      1 year ago

      Reddit tracks outbound link clicks, lemmy.world does not.

      We actually don’t know that. Lemmy does not come packaged with tracking software, but instance owners can add their own. The admins there have actually unsuccesfully tried to dox someone (leaking an email address they thought was that person’s) and track deleted messages on their discord server. We can’t say at this time whether they track users or not.

      Lemmygrad btw does not run any tracking software, it’s the legit lemmy software with no modifications.

      Using the largest lemmy instances is still far and away better than using reddit.

      You’re still interacting with Redditors tho.

    • 🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [she/they]@lemmygrad.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      Of course Reddit doesn’t federate — even if they were willing to do it, what benefit would it be for any other service to federate with it?

      Reddit has a massive userbase, and it’s hard to overstate this impact in terms of even fairly large communities on Reddit, who have a user or two at most on Lemmy.

      Reddit doesn’t force you to use its app — the website remains freely accessible. I can’t understand why people want to get apps for every website they visit… do you need push notifications for Reddit or something?!

      Using the largest Lemmy instances is in many ways equal to Reddit at best.