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about:telemetry should tell you if its enabled or not and has links that go into more detail about whats collected and their policies.

This page explains a bit more about it: https://www.howtogeek.com/557929/how-to-see-and-disable-the-telemetry-data-firefox-collects-about-you/

I'm sure the 2 billion+ instagram, facebook and whatsapp users will be absolutely shocked by this and stop using it /s

The main thing they lack is an easy to use Discord to [XMPP, simplex, session] bridge, If they have that then you could just hop on whichever you prefer and be in touch with the group. Love it or hate it, discord is the top chat app for the moment and being able to interact with it is a necessity.

Matrix has basically come in to place as IRC "2.0" with developers, nearly every fediverse project has Matrix channels, most open source projects in general are starting to have them. XMPP has many years on Matrix but it never took off in regards to that very critical niche of early adopters, developers and power users. XMPP was a good competetor to the web 1.0 chat apps of AIM and MSN but Discord and other apps are much more rich content focused.

Simplex seems to only have a command line interface for PC, it als owould be pretty clunky for groups i think, I have yet to see anyone advertise a Simplex "group chat" in the way they would a discord server, but perhaps there are examples out there.

Session is somewhat better but hinges on the success of a cryptocurrency for its continued development so thats a no from me, also seems to have a lot of scammers although perhaps not as bad as telegram.

Matrix has clients listed on F-Droid.

Jeeze! Even I have a discord to matrix bridge and my entire community is like 20 people, I think 2 of us use matrix.

I dont think honeypot is the right term here, the only situation i can see something like this being at all useful is for a border search where you have to unlock your computer to be searched, in which case you'll need to actually hide the fact that there is a second partition at all, my suggestion would be get a laptop that can support 2 internal drives, unplug one before you travel and have the second one be a generic windows install with some stuff to make it look used.

Sync and boost are doing Lemmy apps, others might follow as the fediverse grows

Instagram has over 1 billion users, it's pretty obvious if they already use instagram they don't care much about privacy.

I'm wondering if it really matters? I don't know how exactly defederation looks from other side but I imagine that a company like meta can easily run a stealth "proxy" instance that isn't advertised as being owned by them and use that to siphon content and present it to their users. It really wouldnt matter if the rest of the fediverse see the commends from threads users because more than likely threads users will outnumber the entire fediverse within a month and can happily exist within that walled garden.

Sadly as much as I agree with the sentiment, I don't think federating will have much effect at all.

I think reddit does a pretty good job of promoting Lemmy on its own.

Apparently a 30 day warning wasn't enough time for them to implement the changes they expected app developers to adjust too, I for one am shocked!

GrapheneOS only supports pixel phones, I've been recommending the 6 to people since its under $300 used but the 5 is still supported and older 3 or 4 models can also run it but no longer get updates.