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.
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.
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.
TBH while I’m a fan of the app, @[email protected] 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.
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.
What do the apps give you that Lemmy’s default UI doesn’t?
Can you explain what you mean about the sharing? I don’t notice any redirection when sharing in Voyager
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.
Oh, I see! Turns out this is a user setting in the app:
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.
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.
TBH while I’m a fan of the app, @[email protected] 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.