In the digital age, protecting your personal information might seem like an
impossible task. We’re here to help. This is a community for sharing news about
privacy, posting information about cool privacy tools and services, and getting
advice about your privacy journey. — You can subscribe to this community from
any Kbin or Lemmy instance: - Subscribe on Kbin.social
[https://kbin.social/m/privacyguides@lemmy.one] - Subscribe on Lemmy.one
[https://lemmy.one/c/privacyguides] - Subscribe on Lemmy.ml
[https://lemmy.ml/c/privacyguides@lemmy.one] - Subscribe on Beehaw.org
[https://beehaw.org/c/privacyguides@lemmy.one] Learn more…
[https://lemmy.one/post/355] — Check out our website at privacyguides.org
[https://www.privacyguides.org] before asking your questions here. We’ve tried
answering the common questions and recommendations there! Want to get involved?
The website is open-source on GitHub
[https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org], and your help would be
appreciated! — This community is the “official” Privacy Guides community on
Lemmy, which can be verified here
[https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/13x7oe3/who_wants_to_try_out_lemmy_privacyguideslemmyone/].
Other “Privacy Guides” communities on other Lemmy servers are not moderated by
this team or associated with the website. — Moderation Rules: 1. We prefer
posting about open-source software whenever possible. 2. This is not the place
for self-promotion if you are not listed on privacyguides.org
[http://privacyguides.org]. If you want to be listed, make a suggestion on our
forum first
[https://discuss.privacyguides.net/c/site-development/suggestions/6]. 3. No
soliciting engagement: Don’t ask for upvotes, follows, etc. 4. Surveys,
Fundraising, and Petitions must be pre-approved by the mod team. 5. Be civil, no
violence, hate speech. Assume people here are posting in good faith. 6. Don’t
repost topics which have already been covered here. 7. News posts must be
related to privacy and security, and your post title must match the article
headline exactly. Do not editorialize titles, you can post your opinions in the
post body or a comment. 8. Memes/images/video posts that could be summarized as
text explanations should not be posted. Infographics and conference talks from
reputable sources are acceptable. 9. No help vampires: This is not a tech
support subreddit, don’t abuse our community’s willingness to help. Questions
related to privacy, security or privacy/security related software and their
configurations are acceptable. 10. No misinformation: Extraordinary claims must
be matched with evidence. 11. Do not post about VPNs or cryptocurrencies which
are not listed on privacyguides.org [https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/].
See Rule 2 for info on adding new recommendations to the website. 12. General
guides or software lists are not permitted. Original sources and research about
specific topics are allowed as long as they are high quality and factual. We are
not providing a platform for poorly-vetted, out-of-date or conflicting
recommendations.
They aren’t the most controversy-free group, but there’s a lot of value in their existence, especially for people newly working toward privacy. It’s also nice to see more groups acknowledging Lemmy
Oh wow, look at that: They did deactivate downvoting… Well, there are still ways to downvote but I guess if it is hidden on the web it serves their purpose. You’re not the only critic.
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
Oh wow, look at that: They did deactivate downvoting… Well, there are still ways to downvote but I guess if it is hidden on the web it serves their purpose. You’re not the only critic.
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