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Stop using BeReal (aussie.zone)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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BeReal is not good (most appropriate way i could say this). It is a Privacy nightmare. Just think about it, a bunch of random strangers are getting access to every single day what you and your family are doing. I know nobody is concerned about privacy anymore. Seems like we have lost that but still Also BeReal has a bunch of Ads. And since the inclusion of Ads bereal has quickly lost in popularity. If you are searching for a Alternative, you should try out DD-DigitalDiary It doesn't have a lot of the features like social sharing. It is basically a journaling application. But still could be a good alternative. Also there was another app Minutaie which first started this trend so i suggest you should also check it out

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When I read "privacy nightmare", I think of a system collecting or revealing information without the user's knowledge. As I understand BeReal, the user understands exactly what information they're sharing, and with whom. That said, I'm puzzled by why anyone would want to participate on either side.

Here are some things I might be doing in any random time window in which such an app might prompt me to share a selfie:

  • Eating food, usually not interesting food foodie friends would like to see
  • Walking, usually somewhere pretty boring
  • Sitting on the toilet
  • Writing code at my computer (often code someone is paying me to write and wouldn't like included in a social media post)
  • Picking dandelions to feed to the goslings at the park

I don't want to share any of those activities with my friends. If we're catching up on life in person, I'm not going to talk about any of that. If any of my friends do want to see those moments, I'd find it weird and voyeuristic.

The interesting moment I do want to share, and people might actually want to see is the close encounter with the wild gosling taking the dandelion leaf from me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

MC Guzzl in da park, it's about to get dark

My mic's a delicious piece of food

Big up DJ Dan Da Lion, lit and hot like a fire

and Snewp Ducc from my pond in my hood

... and big up Zak for always capturing me in my best moments!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Lemmy silver 🥈

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you, thank you!

[–] JohnDClay 8 points 3 weeks ago

You have your profile set to public? Why not just share with your friends?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

You should assume that whatever you upload to the internet without encryption is public. Bereal was always advertised as a tool for sharing your life with others, so this isn't unexpected for me. The only misleading part is that if you share with friends only, it's not just your friends, but also the service provider, so you should assume that it may leak. I never used bereal so I'm not familiar with its features, some of my friends use it and I just heard about it from them. From their description it didn't sound as an app where you should expect privacy.

Is Lemmy a privacy nightmare? No, because you know that everything is public here, admins can even see your DMs.

Do not share private data on the public internet

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Is Lemmy a privacy nightmare? No, because you know that everything is public here, admins can even see your DMs.

There are probably users who don't know this. And I reckon most users don't know that anyone can see everything you upvote and downvote (with a little effort).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay, I'll stop (what even is it?)

Edit: if you're at all concerned about privacy, maybe provide something else than Play Store link for alternatives. Google bad.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Its original idea is actually interesting. Influencers always share perfectly composed scenes of their life, so it seems like they are always traveling, always doing something interesting. This app asks you at random times to please share what you are actually doing at that moment, it sends a notification when you should share, it has a window of some minutes to take a photo. You never know when the next bereal notification will show up. You can be sure, if someone always shares something interesting from their life constantly is not just faking it, it's actually real.

I never used it, but some of my friends do, so this is based on their explanations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That actually sounds like a neat idea. I mean, it's a privacy nightmare, but not much more than any other social media site.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Why is it a nightmare? The whole point of the app is to share pictures of your life. It's only as invasive as you make it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

That actually sounds interesting, yeah. Thanks for clearing it up, I was obviously out of that particular loop 👍

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Hasn't it gone out of fashion already ?