This may look like a weird question btw.

I see constantly people here worried about digital security, I see people using Tor, deleting social networks, and just sharing the different levels of security that they use.

So I was wondering, how safe is Lemmy? Sure it doesnt collect info like Twitter and Meta does, but that doesnt mean its 100% safe. So what are the main problems we can have here? Is there anything the 3 letter agencies could exploit? Is there any preventive measures users could take?

  • SpaceCowboy
    13•2 years ago

    I post a lot of yt videos on here and I want to say: If you open a link from this site copy the link address and put it into your search bar. Sites can tell where you have been directed from. All major tech companies have backdoors for the three letter agencies.

    As far as what you say, I like to pretend there is someone looking over my shoulder when I am online, the US government made the internet.

    Definitely some more savvy people on here than me, but those are my two observations.

    • loathesome dongeater
      14•2 years ago

      This got me curious so I looked. In Firefox it is possible to disable the sending of referred header entirely. I just turned it off to experiment and see if it breaks any sites.

      • Arsen6331 ☭
        10•2 years ago

        It shouldn’t break any sites. If it does, they’ve made some bad design decisions with regards to the referer header.