A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don’t promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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Please don’t do this. One of the best experiences about university is meeting new people. Don’t cut people out of your life because they use the wrong chat app.
I could not wait to end university, so that I can stop using big tech products. Unfortunately people only use products they are familiar with. If they are always on facebook, they use that for groups. Good luck finding a local community uses anything but facebook groups.
Edit: at university, many pieces of info reaches you informally. If you are not talking to classmates, you might miss important news as well.
No, do that. Fully legitimate to choose friends with similar values. If privacy awareness is a big thing for you, do that, really. I survived college without installing Discord. It did bar me out of many groups, but I still had a fairly large circle of friends. I guess Germany is a bit different regarding privacy awareness among younger people, though.
What’s your problem with Discord?
OPs roommate isn’t worth meeting.
I’ve met like 5 people more during my university studies, none of which I kept in touch with after graduating. I kinda regret it but I’m not really a person that makes friends easily (or at all), so whatever. I had different friends outside of that.
You think you’d lose friends over saying a social media app is cancer?
You lose friends when you refuse to communicate with them because of the app they’re using.
If one of their relatives had cancer, it would be belittling that experience. I would not do that unless I wanted to be a dick.
Ok this is a fair point. But saying an app is bad because it doesn’t respect its users should cause no hard feelings between friends.
You mean exactly what the dingus in OP’s post is trying to do?