I’ve got to make a decision and want to take a room temperature check on what sacrifices people find acceptable for their own comfort. Use any services you know you shouldn’t? Any tools that you’re just waiting for a chance to replace but can’t yet?

  • phatpipe69@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    To be honest, I got banned off Reddit a few weeks ago and was surprised when I signed up here that i’d have to give my email. I thought from what i’d read on Reddit that Lemmy was decentralised?? Hate giving up any of my personal information for these online forums. I came here to try it after also trying Mirage and their sign up process required no personal information input which was good but I thought f*ck it i’ll give it a look on here as well. Is there any way around it? Has anyone else tried Mirage?

    • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      Décentralisation is just how it’s structured, it has nothing to do with privacy. Email itself is decentralised.

      I would recommend using a service like duckduckgo which lets you generate @duck.com email addresses for anonymous signups