BeReal is not good (most appropriate way i could say this). It is a Privacy nightmare. Just think about it, a bunch of random strangers are getting access to every single day what you and your family are doing. I know nobody is concerned about privacy anymore. Seems like we have lost that but still Also BeReal has a bunch of Ads. And since the inclusion of Ads bereal has quickly lost in popularity. If you are searching for a Alternative, you should try out DD-DigitalDiary It doesn’t have a lot of the features like social sharing. It is basically a journaling application. But still could be a good alternative. Also there was another app Minutaie which first started this trend so i suggest you should also check it out
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I mean you can set it so that only your friends see your posts. And they are French so I suppose they at least follow GDPR. But yeah, of course it collects your data and all that stuff like all social media
Damn I came here in defense of Cypress Hill but wrong thread…
I just find the format itself pointless. Not only does that encourage oversharing (including images of your face, which for me is a big no-no), but also doesn’t allow expressing yourself. You can pretty much only state facts like “I cooked pancakes today”. Not express your thoughts and skills, like a wall of text on hidden meanings in Squidward’s music. Even in a simple photo report, choosing how and when to take photos is most of the art, while randomized timing deprives you of that.
Obviously, BeReal fails to include a libre software license text file. We do not control it, anti-libre software. So, there was never a reason to think it is private.
I have a friend who uses it religiously, and I found out they would sometimes sneak pictures of people around them, including me. Totally uncool behavior!
What the shit, that is not okay
I would tear them a new one.
I had no idea what this was. Its just another shovelware social media platform. Of course its a privacy nightmare. Its a social media platform.
Shouldnt there be better… Hopefully. Like a different Like Protonmail did to Gmail
I don’t follow what youre saying
This is an okay write up but okay? Who uses this anymore? Who used it at all?
It was literally everywhere only a year ago or so in my country. Luckily its started to die out, hoping that trend continues.
Privacy and social media are mutually exclusive. The ones you have linked are no exception. DD requires a phone number so I didn’t get any further. Minutiae has you taking photos and sending them to a centralized service. That’s not private. I don’t understand why you’d say that no is concerned about privacy with the implication that’s a bad thing then immediately recommend something as bad.
Privacy and social media are not really mutually exclusive - if we’re talking about a service like Facebook that follows you around the internet unless you take measures, yes. But if we mean something like Lemmy or Mastodon, it can be fine for privacy if you choose right what you do and don’t expose.
I started using it a while ago. One big difference between iOS and android version. Android version is published by voodoo. Also, because of Adblock, I did not know or notice that it has ads. And my posts are only visible to friends for a day , not strangers for ever.
Do you know anything else , like what data they might collect?
Check permissions on your phone that should give some idea and read the tos. You likely won’t like it tbh but that’s standard with anything not foss
https://tosdr.org/en/service/6742
Same as always, everything
Heard about them last year from a relative. I couldn’t believe this was actually a thing that people use.
