Most private app for Lemmy

Just heard of Lemmy today

I would love to leave reddit

Whats most privacy respecting android app for Lemmy ?

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I can't imagine that any app that currently exists gives a shit about exploiting your data. Lemmy is too young for that to really be a problem.
The real problem is that nothing on lemmy is private because of it's federated design. There have been some discussions the last few weeks talking about this, but just about every interaction you do is broadcasted out to every instance, and its social media so of course anyone can see what you post. Things like viewed posts and saved content should stay on your instances server, but assume every other action is public.
- Dont use your real name on the good internet
- Agreed. Although The Fediverse also can't easily be searched via your standard search engines, so finding that public information is harder than on other social media apps (for now...).
  This isn't to say there isn't a privacy concern using any Fediverse Social media platform. It's just that there are some inherent design implementations that make it hard for the average person to invade the privacy of a user of the platform.
  This is, of course, afaik. Please let me know if I'm mistaken.
  
  Search currently kinda sucks actually inside the fediverse. I tried to find one of those posts before making the comment but gave up because it was worthless.
  I’d imagine it’s only a matter of time until someone makes something better, and 3rd parties start mining it. Or we’ll get that nefarious third party with a server just ingesting all our data to sell off.
  
  pretty much spot on, search is still pretty bad on fedi (on the twittery side and the reddity side)
  although it is still not hard to invade someones privacy the old fashioned way by, for instance, making alt accounts to evade blocks but thats nothing unique thats all platforms
  
  It can be searched just fine, Googled my tag to see where I get hits, and quite a few are Lemmy comments.
- Wait, even direct messages?
  
  direct messages arent really private on any platform but on the fediverse they especially arent
  not only can your admin read your messages if they really want to (like non federated sites) but also you have to consider the other instances admins too
  i think thats why lemmy has a profile field for a matrix username by default because thats at least a more private way to do dms
- The instance I joined didn’t even require an email at the time. They have a long way to go if they want to be the next Facebook lol

I just use jerboa it's foss.
- Yep. I've tried other clients, but somehow this one just stuck for me. Simple interface, works well.
- Thanks just installed it I appreciate the link
- yeah it works well can confirm

I use Eternity

I would recommend any of the open source apps, my personal recommendation is Eternity.
https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Eternity
You can find it on f-droid.

Voyager is on both platforms, Jebora is only for Android, both are pure open source so you have full privacy and anonymity.

I would stick with one of the open source apps. Thunder is my favorite, but Voyager and Eternity are good as well.
- I've only used Thunder, but it's been just fine and I haven't felt like I need to see what else is out there. I guess it could be more responsive with reply notifications and such but that's pretty minor.
- What lemmy apps aren't open source?
  
  Sync, Boost, Connect and Summit, to name a few.

You could use the website in a webbrowser. Then you don't have to be concerned about app and app provider.
It's what I'm using. On mobile too.
- @Kissaki @TrippingBalls But are there any working?
  
  Any working what?
  I'm using the website of my instance. Lemmy instances typically have their own website you can use - which is exactly or slightly modified versions of the interface of the Lemmy project.
  If you trust your instance with your account and its associated data surely you trust it's website.

I use Eternity it's foss and a fork of infinity for reddit
- I feel like I'm on Infinity but was transported to a better version of Reddit.

Just don't use anything proprietary like Sync or Connect

Sync is the absolute best app but I think privacy is probably not great.
But this is Lemmy so you don't even need to use an email address if you don't want. You can be semi anonymous and change username often if you want, and change between apps or instances also.
Data is never gone but it's also not tied to anything real about you.

Liftoff

I use Connect for lemmy. Doesn't ask for any permissions.
- @root @TrippingBalls Connect for lemmy: is it avaiable for android ?
  
  Yup. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect

Liftoff is pretty decent

This is all opinions here, so I'm just saying that Sync is the only one I know that's closed source.

it seems like if you are interested in private, Lemmy isn't really a great place?
It strikes me that the lemiverse is basically self doxximg with no ability to get rid of the data. I mean I don't really know what gwts logged but it seems like it's never gone via federation.
- There is a big difference between posting in public non confidential stuff and an app tracking all your clicks and likes and device contacts and telemetry
  I supposed the topic starter meant the last one

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