Not much longer, Lemmy 1.0 will have private communities.

A big thing is that all your voting activity, while we it appears private is actually"broadcast" to all the servers in the fediverse without any actual verification of who runs it. I learned this after setting up an instance and finding out that it's possible to list all votes on any post, not just activity on my instance. So I'm not sure if privacy is actually a good selling point.

The difference is though that Lemmy instances are less likely to voluntarily give out sensitive information they might have about you, and the federated copies of your account don't have that data in them anyway. In that sense it is way more private.

The privacy concerns with Reddit don't lie in the privacy of posted data but in the credentials and account information they have on you, that they are voluntarily giving to DHS to expose anti-ICE users.

i prefer to send my revolutionary texts by pigeon.