I’m fed up trying to talk about privacy to my friends! Every time I start to talk about privacy they go “Are you a terrorist!” , “What are you hiding?” , “Are you a pimp”. This has happened way so many times that I gave up trying to talk privacy entirely to my friends. But, privacy is one of my main interests, it’s kind of like my hobby. One of the few things that I like and am passionate about is privacy. Since I didn’t have a social group to talk about privacy I created one on Matrix! I created a Matrix space called “Intimadad Amigos” (means ‘privacy friends’ in Spanish- And, nope! Before anyone asks I’m not Spanish. I was looking for a name for the space and thought this one was cool). Here you can talk about all things privacy such as civil liberties, OpSec, Netsec, politics and philosophies involving privacy without exposing your real identity with like minded people. I’m pretty sure many would have faced this where they can’t freely discuss privacy without getting put down or getting nagged with unending questions about whether they are a terrorist. So I hope this space will be beneficial to you. Feel free to join and grab your like-minded friends along with you! Happy socializing!
Matrix Space Link: https://matrix.to/#/!WWreQNpCubYEuZnMxI:matrix.org?via=matrix.org
What kind of friends do you have? I was able to explain my decision for privacy to my friends and they understood my choice. They still don’t care them self but no one is calling me weird names. They fully understand me. They are just to lazy to give up the luxury from google etc.
But maybe that’s because I’m from Germany. Here the concept of privacy is something most people like, at least in real life and in untechnical situations. I think they just don’t understand enough about tech to understand that it pretty much has the same importance as the Real Life when it comes to maintaining your privacy.
Anyways. I will probably join.
Edit: Link is not working.
Sorry! I’m still new to Matrix so I’m still figuring out stuff. I’ll check what to do and post the new link here.
Yeah, being from the EU might be helpful to you since more people are aware of the importance of data privacy thanks to laws like GDPR. But where I live the concept of privacy is alien. Privacy is taboo here and trying to achieve physical privacy itself will be frustrating don’t even get me started on the digital side.