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minus-squareFern@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up41·2 months 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_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months 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-up1·2 months agoconvincing people to switch the hardest part
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months 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-down1·2 months 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-squareColdmoon@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·2 months agoIf there was ever a time for a “touch grass” comment this would be it.
minus-squareMac@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoNot very private to put your name on a government list of gun owners.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoThat’s not needed in my state.
minus-squareSturgist@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoNot everyone here lives in your state
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months 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-up2·2 months agoIt’s a valid assumption in my state.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months 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.