Messages can contain personally identifiable information and they very often do. You cannot anonymize messages by just deleting the user name and email address of the sender. With Reddit the difference is that it is public in the first place while with direct messages you have anexpectations of privacy. But of course how things turn out in court is another matter.

Note that the admins of your instance can see absolutely everything in your account. Social media is not private and Lemmy is no exception to this.

Really? That is a stupid limitation.

You can set a custom time range. It is only set to just one month because longer ranges need more resources and time. But yes, it is non intuitive and cumbersome.

Strange is a rather euphemistic word for it.

Except for lemmygrad, yes.

That is not true.

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Why not use Whonix on your Arch? The Matrix client in Whonix would be routed over Tor and anonymous provided you do not give out your identity and the Matrix client on the host would be in the clear.

Sounds like a good way to filter out the worst.

Exit nodes alone cannot deanonymize Tor traffic. Tor is specifically designed so that unlike e.g. VPNs it does not have a single point of failure. If a node in your circuit is malicious, no matter which, you are still anonymous.

So the anonymized data might not be anonymized after all. That is as unexpected as a pot of milk boiling over on the stove when you leave the room. Expect this to be the case with all telemetry as the default. They always claim it is only for improving the products, but in reality it is very often an extremely detailed log of all user activity comprising sometimes of essentially every click and even other data about third party programs other device activity unrelated to the program or data about other devices in the same network, proximity etc. and the way your device communicates with them.

Unless software is open source and transparent about what data it collects for telemetry on a truly voluntary basis, openly asking you about whether you want to send telemetry and giving you equivalent yes and no options without any dark patterns or opt outs, always reject telemetry where possible, go into the settings and turn it off, opt out of hidden data sharing settings and block telemetry and other tracking at the network level e.g. with DNS filtering.

Supposedly anonymized data is very often not really anonymized at all. That is often just a claim to bypass privacy regulations. There are data brokers identifying supposedly anonymized data and aggregating it with other data sources for a business.

I would simply be 135 year old identifying as a pirate, but torrent trackers don’t ask for this information.

Yes, I did.

But KOSA’s chief focus is not to protect young people’s privacy. The bill’s main aim is to censor a broad swath of speech in response to concerns that young people are spending too much time on social media, and too often encountering harmful content. KOSA requires sites to “prevent and mitigate mental health disorders,” including by the promotion or exacerbation of “self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, and substance use disorders.” Make no mistake: this is a requirement that platforms censor content.

That sounds a lot like “Think of the children!” to me.

But think of the children!

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I strongly disagree. That’s a problem for everyone. Everyone needs privacy, not just journalists.

Are you talking about watching or uploading to YouTube?

You can use NewPipe on Android and FreeTube on desktop as free open source third party clients. They allow you to create (or import) a list of local subscriptions and a subscription tab where the list of your subscried channels’ videos gets fetched and ordered into a chronological list just like on YouTube with an account. They are less responsive and stable than YouTube app and website, but work well for watching your favorite channels.

Can you define what you mean with supercookies? There are two different technologies under that name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie#Supercookie