# A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world. Privacy has
become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments
constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the
importance of digital privacy. In this community everyone is welcome to post
links and discuss topics related to privacy. ### Some Rules - Posting a link to
a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind
a paywall maybe copy them into the post - Don’t promote proprietary software -
Try to keep things on topic - If you have a question, please try searching for
previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered - Reposts are fine, but
should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a
new audience - Be nice :) ### Related communities - Lemmy.ml libre_culture
[https://lemmy.ml/c/libre_culture] - Lemmy.ml privatelife
[https://lemmy.ml/c/privatelife] - Lemmy.ml DeGoogle
[https://lemmy.ml/c/degoogle] - Lemmy.ca privacy [https://lemmy.ca/c/privacy]
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
I’m new here, fleeing reddit and it’s war on anonymity.
Happy to be here!
I created my account on Lemmy.world, and yesterday learned how to subscribe to communities on other servers.
I was adding a few from Lemmy.ml, but hit a snag with a couple, using the ‘Privacy’ community as my example: when I hit ‘subscribe’ and enter ‘Lemmy.world’ as the instance to follow from, I just get a white page with ‘Server error’.
I left it 24hrs and tried again, and its still the same.
Thanks for the in-depth response :)
I’ve discovered I can copy / select text within summit - something I used to find an annoying limitation of the reddit app, so that’s nice to have.
So far I’ve discovered that community discovery within lemmy.world is just as easy in-app, but it is easier to search other servers from the web instance.
So far, for things like referencing text whilst formulating a response I totally agree, but for shorter stuff I’m happy to app-switch between summit and web if needed, and for longer stuff, as an elder web user I’m no stranger to using a laptop.
Yes, non-phone browser offers by far the best experience, but also doesn’t fit into every workflow so that’s the downside. Ofc it depends on what you want from the Threadiverse - long conversations about philosophy and poetry (I’ve done that! Using a laptop definitely was mandatory for it!!) vs. doomscrolling through shitpost memes to take a mental break between things at work or home (taking a break from bigger screen to stare at small screen).
Thanks for the in-depth response :) I’ve discovered I can copy / select text within summit - something I used to find an annoying limitation of the reddit app, so that’s nice to have. So far I’ve discovered that community discovery within lemmy.world is just as easy in-app, but it is easier to search other servers from the web instance. So far, for things like referencing text whilst formulating a response I totally agree, but for shorter stuff I’m happy to app-switch between summit and web if needed, and for longer stuff, as an elder web user I’m no stranger to using a laptop.
Yes, non-phone browser offers by far the best experience, but also doesn’t fit into every workflow so that’s the downside. Ofc it depends on what you want from the Threadiverse - long conversations about philosophy and poetry (I’ve done that! Using a laptop definitely was mandatory for it!!) vs. doomscrolling through shitpost memes to take a mental break between things at work or home (taking a break from bigger screen to stare at small screen).