In theory as far as I can see Lemmy is heading for Reddit 2.0, which is way worse.
In my eyes, currently:
- Mods are abusing their powers, as usual.
- Lemmy. World is acting more like a company by day.
- Some instances block VPN and Tor.
- Federation is kinda of not that perfect right now.
- I guarantee that not a single instance will defend their users privacy.
So… That bring me to my question, Why would anyone who can use Reddit, use Lemmy instead?
That’s a “people” problem, not a “Lemmy” problem. Lemmy is just a software.
lemmy.world isn’t all of Lemmy. That’s like looking into r/conservative or r/genzedong and claiming “Reddit” is “Far-Right”/“Far-Left”
I’ve used many instances and I’ve always used Tor with no issue. Again, that’s a lemmy.world issue.
As with most free software/platform, its gonna be less-than-perfect since its not funded/controlled by billionaires.
You have to keep in mind this golden rule of the world: No one is willing to go to jail to protect your privacy. If you an instance owner, and were put in a position to either comply with legal requests or go to jail, you’d probabaly prefer to not go to jail. Everything you do is on Lemmy is public anyways, just use Tor/VPN to hide your IP from your instance owner. Use Matrix if you wanna DM someone.