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minus-squareFern@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up41·3 days agoNot to be a doomer, but it feels like the skill floor to protecting my privacy is unbearably high and getting higher. Does anyone have a good resource about it?
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tealinkfedilinkarrow-up3·15 hours agoJust do one thing at a time. Here’s my general process: switch email, and forward everything from the old one to the new one (I use my own domain name, but paid hosting) get into self-hosting, and slowly replace services I use w/ self-hosted ones get friends and family to switch to privacy-friendly services to communicate w/ me And so on. Just do one thing at a time, and continue until you’re happy with it.
minus-squarefishie@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 hours agoconvincing people to switch the hardest part
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tealinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 hours agoYup, but it’s possible if you get them one by one. They can keep their old stuff, just use the new one with you.
minus-squareschizo@forum.uncomfortable.businesslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·16 hours agoI have to ask: what are you going to do? Shoot Facebook? Snipe iCloud? Start blasting Google? Pretty sure a rifle is in no way a useful tool for any sort of online privacy.
minus-squareColdmoonlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·15 hours agoIf there was ever a time for a “touch grass” comment this would be it.
minus-squareMac@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoNot very private to put your name on a government list of gun owners.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tealinkfedilinkarrow-up1·18 hours agoI was suggesting the OP may live in a similar state, using mine as an example. The assumption was: buying a gun = registration in a government database. That’s not a valid assumption, so I provided a counter example.
minus-squareMac@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·16 hours agoIt’s a valid assumption in my state.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tealinkfedilinkarrow-up1·16 hours ago Not everyone here lives in your state
Not to be a doomer, but it feels like the skill floor to protecting my privacy is unbearably high and getting higher. Does anyone have a good resource about it?
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/
Just do one thing at a time. Here’s my general process:
And so on. Just do one thing at a time, and continue until you’re happy with it.
convincing people to switch the hardest part
Yup, but it’s possible if you get them one by one. They can keep their old stuff, just use the new one with you.
Rifles.
I have to ask: what are you going to do? Shoot Facebook? Snipe iCloud?
Start blasting Google?
Pretty sure a rifle is in no way a useful tool for any sort of online privacy.
If there was ever a time for a “touch grass” comment this would be it.
Not very private to put your name on a government list of gun owners.
That’s not needed in my state.
Not everyone here lives in your state
I was suggesting the OP may live in a similar state, using mine as an example.
The assumption was: buying a gun = registration in a government database. That’s not a valid assumption, so I provided a counter example.
It’s a valid assumption in my state.