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Cake day: January 14th, 2021
  • dragonfly0@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•one good reason to use lemmy
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    4 years ago

    Another good reason is the sheer quantity of bullshit you can read on Reddit. Most people talk, talk, and they really don’t know a shit of what they’re talking about. This is especially true on privacy subreddits, but I guess there are plenty of other subreddits that have the same issue. Here you see more genuine opinions, from more savy people.

    Yet another argument is that Reddit is engineered to constantly catch your attention, with endless posts, mostly bullshit. When I was using that platform, before reading something really meaningful for me, I had to scroll hundreds of posts. I was completely throwing my time into a toilet made out of a useless stream of posts. On Lemmy, everything is slow. Discussions are more interesting, controversial opinions are not buried under dozens of downvotes.

  • dragonfly0@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Caring less about privacy
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    4 years ago

    Am I being a fool “giving up” ?

    No, definitely not.

    You’re making a decision, and at the moment you decided to stay relaxed and enjoy those products. While privacy is undoubtedly an important matter, it is no life or death question.

    I had a similar problem in the past. I was constantly looking for privacy discussions, was a lot concerned about every single app and product I had installed on my phone or on my computer.

    I started being more relaxed when I actually realized I had to use privacy products not because they’re private, but because they’re inherently better in a lot of ways. Then I tried to switch, slowly but steadily, on FOSS solutions. Those are free to use, free to inspect and free to modify, and they will rarely betray the user. At first it wasn’t simple, but I was becoming more and more productive on those new platforms.

    In the end, I’m very happy with private products, but of course, because they work very well. Just be balanced and don’t be too much stressed on privacy, try to focus on what matters, for example getting things done and productivity.

    As a rule of thumb: if a privacy respecting product and a non-respecting product have the same features that you care about, always pick the privacy respecting one.