IP address of the device you’re using to access Lemmy
Posts, comments, favourites, upvotes, downvotes, subscriptions, blocked users, blocked communities. This also includes PMs (don’t use Lemmy PMs, make use the fact that your Lemmy can include a link to a Matrix account!)
Username, hashed password, email address if provided
TOTP public key if you have 2FA enabled
Your application if your server requires/required you to apply to register
Avatar, profile description, account registration date
Installed apps may track more information (i.e. paid apps will probably collect some information so you can actually use the pro features, maybe device IDs, possibly advertising information if you can find a Lemmy app with ads)
Individual Lemmy apps may or may not collect more information; the code is open so servers can modify the source code if they so wish.
In ActivityPub, PMs are just “notes”. They’re comments that don’t get posted in public, essentially. This has the (hilariously awkward) side effect of sending a copy of your entire private conversation if you tag a user you’re gossiping about, especially on Mastodon.
ActivityPub is not suited for PMs. Use Matrix, XMPP, Signal, or anything else instead. You’re one @[email protected] away from sharing your message history.
I guess most people consider them to be a separate thing. I’ll add them to the list.
Matrix is a decentralized chat service. It’s to Signal/Discord what Lemmy is to Reddit. It doesn’t interoperate with the Fediverse directly, but Lemmy does have a special field in the profile page to write down your Matrix account. What Matrix does have, is a chat system that’s actually designed for chat, which the Fediverse lacks by itself.
Like on the Fediverse, you pick a server to sign up with (matrix.org, matrix.infosec.exchange, there’s a whole bunch of them) and then you use it to talk to other people. Here’s a guide to joining Matrix if you’ve never heard of it.
If you don’t want to use someone else’s server, you can set up your own server if you’re technically oriented, like you can set up your own Mastodon or Lemmy instance. You can use it to put all manner of chat apps in one place (iMessage + SMS + Signal + WhatsApp + Telegram + Line + Slack + Discord) through bridges if you set it up yourself, or you can pay for a service to do it for you. Using bridges isn’t quite as easy and intuitive as using the native apps themselves, but Matrix to Matrix chats work excellent.
Matrix has individual chats, group chats, “spaces” (like Discord servers, but with the ability to group together “servers” and individual chatrooms in spaces of your own name and hierarchy if you wish). There are various apps to choose from (“Element” is probably the one you want), and all of it is end-to-end encrypted.
Alternatively, XMPP is an older protocol that offers many of the same benefits, but I don’t think it’s as popular these days. Various big open source projects switched to Matrix from IRC chat, which probably helped a lot with popularity.
Data collected by a standard Lemmy server:
IP address of the device you’re using to access Lemmy
Posts, comments, favourites, upvotes, downvotes, subscriptions, blocked users, blocked communities. This also includes PMs (don’t use Lemmy PMs, make use the fact that your Lemmy can include a link to a Matrix account!)
Username, hashed password, email address if provided
TOTP public key if you have 2FA enabled
Your application if your server requires/required you to apply to register
Avatar, profile description, account registration date
Installed apps may track more information (i.e. paid apps will probably collect some information so you can actually use the pro features, maybe device IDs, possibly advertising information if you can find a Lemmy app with ads)
Individual Lemmy apps may or may not collect more information; the code is open so servers can modify the source code if they so wish.
PM is a misnomer since it’s not really private. Direct message or DM would be more correct, on Lemmy, DM as if it would be shown in public.
Don’t forget email address if you have one for account recovery purposes
Good point, added it!
How does it not get PMs?
Are those local per device only?
In ActivityPub, PMs are just “notes”. They’re comments that don’t get posted in public, essentially. This has the (hilariously awkward) side effect of sending a copy of your entire private conversation if you tag a user you’re gossiping about, especially on Mastodon.
ActivityPub is not suited for PMs. Use Matrix, XMPP, Signal, or anything else instead. You’re one @[email protected] away from sharing your message history.
I guess most people consider them to be a separate thing. I’ll add them to the list.
Well that’s a super good piece of information Holy shit.
Haha, neat. That’s good to know! I wish the Lemmy apps would stop advertising PM’s them.
I don’t think I ever PM’d anyone on Reddit unless it was /r/HardwareSwap anyways.
What is a matrix account?
Matrix is a decentralized chat service. It’s to Signal/Discord what Lemmy is to Reddit. It doesn’t interoperate with the Fediverse directly, but Lemmy does have a special field in the profile page to write down your Matrix account. What Matrix does have, is a chat system that’s actually designed for chat, which the Fediverse lacks by itself.
Like on the Fediverse, you pick a server to sign up with (matrix.org, matrix.infosec.exchange, there’s a whole bunch of them) and then you use it to talk to other people. Here’s a guide to joining Matrix if you’ve never heard of it.
If you don’t want to use someone else’s server, you can set up your own server if you’re technically oriented, like you can set up your own Mastodon or Lemmy instance. You can use it to put all manner of chat apps in one place (iMessage + SMS + Signal + WhatsApp + Telegram + Line + Slack + Discord) through bridges if you set it up yourself, or you can pay for a service to do it for you. Using bridges isn’t quite as easy and intuitive as using the native apps themselves, but Matrix to Matrix chats work excellent.
Matrix has individual chats, group chats, “spaces” (like Discord servers, but with the ability to group together “servers” and individual chatrooms in spaces of your own name and hierarchy if you wish). There are various apps to choose from (“Element” is probably the one you want), and all of it is end-to-end encrypted.
Alternatively, XMPP is an older protocol that offers many of the same benefits, but I don’t think it’s as popular these days. Various big open source projects switched to Matrix from IRC chat, which probably helped a lot with popularity.