YSK that there's a bot that's tracking trending communities across Lemmy
YSK that there's a bot that's tracking trending communities across Lemmy
There's a bot that's tracks Lemmy communities for Active User Growth and Subscribers Growth each day and posts it to the following community.
https://feddit.nl/c/trendingcommunities
Check out the trending communities and join the ones you like!
This sounded like an ominous privacy warning lol!
Your actual browsing of lemmy is moderately private, provided you trust your server.
But nothing else is. By design, it's pretty easy for anyone who wants to track activity on any federated platform to do so. They're extremely open.
Your actual browsing of lemmy is moderately private, provided you trust your server.
Not exactly. Many of the big instances have Cloudflare (or similar) sitting between you and the server, providing the HTTPS layer while watching everything you read and write on Lemmy. In cryptography circles, we call this a man-in-the-middle.
Your instance (sh.itjust.works) is one such instance, by the way, as is lemmy.world.
Trains lol. Autists in da house. Represent!
It's a super useful place for finding new communities to subscribe to! I also heartily recommend !communities@ponder.cat