I've got to make a decision and want to take a room temperature check on what sacrifices people find acceptable for their own comfort. Use any services you know you shouldn't? Any tools that you're just waiting for a chance to replace but can't yet?

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[–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

To be honest, I got banned off Reddit a few weeks ago and was surprised when I signed up here that i'd have to give my email. I thought from what i'd read on Reddit that Lemmy was decentralised?? Hate giving up any of my personal information for these online forums. I came here to try it after also trying Mirage and their sign up process required no personal information input which was good but I thought f*ck it i'll give it a look on here as well. Is there any way around it? Has anyone else tried Mirage?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    what's that? is that possible?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Mirage feels to me like the very OG Reddit. Even from a UI standpoint. They’ve built their own blockchain. So when I signed up there, I was given my own seed phrase to access the account vs having to give any of my own personal credentials. Seems a lot more privacy-focused. Didn't ask me for my personal email, nothing at all as a matter of fact. Definitely feel a lot more comfortable that way.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Décentralisation is just how it's structured, it has nothing to do with privacy. Email itself is decentralised.

    I would recommend using a service like duckduckgo which lets you generate @duck.com email addresses for anonymous signups

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