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I'm using Lemmy in a browser right now, are there any apps I can use for Lemmy on my phone and PC? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I have a GrapheneOS phone and Linux Mint on my personal computer.

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[โ€“] 5 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Can you explain what you mean about the sharing? I don't notice any redirection when sharing in Voyager

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 5 days ago* (7 children)

    When sharing a link to a post from Voyager it sends you to a URL on their server.

    As an example, sharing this post from Summit will go to https://sh.itjust.works/post/68040352, but sharing this post from Voyager will go to https://vger.to/sh.itjust.works/post/68040352, which is a private server where we don't know what this person is doing with the data collected.

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 5 days ago* (6 children)

    Oh, I see! Turns out this is a user setting in the app:

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    And you don't see a problem where the default is that tracking behavior? I shouldn't have to hunt through settings meticulously just to maintain some semblance of privacy.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Eh... I have it enabled because it's an easy way to open links in the app. Like, if my friend sends me a link to lemmy.world/whatever, voyager won't be able to open it by default, but using Voyager links allows the app to open it.

    Are other apps able to open links without using this work around? It's a pretty important feature-not-bug for me.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    I'm on grapheneos, when someone seems me a link, I long press until a context moment l menu pops up, then I share to summit. I don't allow apps to auto-open other apps as its a privacy concern. App developers will use what apps you have available for handling links as a way to build a unique profile of their users.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 4 days ago

    I care about privacy and all, but I care about bringing my friends over to the fediverse more. I'm happy sending them voyager links and not starting a blog post of "buy a pixel and install graphene" to get them to open a meme thread. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Hey buddy, instances can already track you anyway. The voyager link is better for voyager users sharing things to eachother because it opens in the recipient's preferred instance in their voyager app instead of being taken to the web UI of some random instance you don't even have an account on. You don't have to use it if you don't want it.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 5 days ago*

    TBH while I'm a fan of the app, @begrudgedcarfolk@sh.itjust.works has a point that it's annoying when full privacy requires pouring through every setting you don't even know exists. I'd love for apps to be fully private by default. I don't prefer to blindly trust passing data through third-parties. In this case though, you can see the link that will be shared before you do so, so I don't feel the Voyager dev(s) are doing anything too shady.

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