• Jesse@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    I’m incredibly discouraged at the privacy community’s inability to come together for a losing fight. […] The sheer lack of empathy in the privacy community is astounding, I’ve never seen anything quite like it. Developers attacking other projects to protect their fragile ego, people new to privacy being shamed for not knowing everything out the gate, users pushed to feel regret because of their conscious (and commonly educated) decision to stay within the Apple ecosystem and work within its limitations. The list goes on.

    This is something that I’ve been echoing for quite a while now. Lots of people completely divided. We need marginal increases in privacy for the masses as opposed to extreme life changes for the few.

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      3 years ago

      yeah its pretty shit, but its probably also a result of the very successful public campaigns to portray anyone interested in personal privacy as a tinfoil lunatic.

      privacy advocates growing weary of being attacked and ridiculed, inevitably turning nasty themselves.

      not saying its justified, just trying to identify the roots so we can hopefully fix them.

      all of us may sometimes be at risk of falling into these traps.