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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?
I have a GrapheneOS phone and Linux Mint on my personal computer.
Replying to @psycholocomotor@lemmy.world
I would advise against using Voyager since it tries to track link shares by first directing you to their website first. It made me uncomfortable so I switched to Summit. I had tried interstellar but wasn’t a fan of the layout or how they didn’t have the ability to handle going into cross-posted links on android at least. Also, had to use obtainium to install it. Summit on F-Droid supports the full fediverse. I had tried a fourth but can’t remember its name, I dropped it because it lacked support for piefeed.
Replying to @begrudgedcarfolk@sh.itjust.works
Can you explain what you mean about the sharing? I don’t notice any redirection when sharing in Voyager
Replying to @crandall@lemmy.today
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 sh.itjust.works/post/68040352, but sharing this post from Voyager will go to 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.
Replying to @begrudgedcarfolk@sh.itjust.works
Oh, I see! Turns out this is a user setting in the app:
Replying to @crandall@lemmy.today
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.
Replying to @begrudgedcarfolk@sh.itjust.works
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.
Replying to @boonhet@lemmy.zip
TBH while I’m a fan of the app, they have 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.
Replying to @begrudgedcarfolk@sh.itjust.works
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.
Replying to @overcast5348@lemmy.world
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.
Replying to @begrudgedcarfolk@sh.itjust.works
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. 🤷♂️