I’m new as in this is my first day using lemmy. I don’t know anything about lemmy etiquette and don’t want to do anything bad

thanks and have an amazing day! also plz be kind :D

  • Giraffe@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    Lemmy offers more freedom, more privacy, and your data is not sold. Unlike other social networks, Lemmy is part of the fediverse, so you have to choose a server that suits your tastes and preferences. Reddit has subreddits, and Lemmy has communities. Reddit does not respect privacy, but Lemmy does.

    • Scrollone@feddit.it
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      3 hours ago

      I don’t agree with “more privacy”. Data is federated, so anybody can easily scrape and gather data.

      Even upvotes/downvotes are public (even if your client doesn’t display them, you can get the list of users that voted your post/comment through the API).

      You can be anonymous, create multiple accounts on different instances, you can use a client with not trackers, etc. but I wouldn’t say there’s more privacy.