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Have you read about the recent "PrivacyTools vs. Privacy Guides"?
"Privacy" is vague at semantic surface, it is being exploited by marketing scheme and opportunistic people. The privacy community is rigged, they are all dishonest people trying to deliver countermeasures to your own definitions of "privacy", not educating (or at least defining) what privacy really is.
I have foreseen this for years. Wave after wave of activists and advocators flocking to the privacy community, create manifestos and attract FOMO people who got bored with current big tech in attempt to destroy them instead of actually building something, because they're so lame that they're incapable of building anything. There are many names that I don't want to name here.
The Reddit community — especially Reddit — is heavily rigged, at systemic scale, not just subreddit scope. The extreme democratic scheme alone is annoying already, the moderation is annoying by 10 times. I even doubt some Reddit mods are state agents and the whole cesspool is a honey pot, and the others are just fanboys of whatever they're fan of.
Privacy is not a "community", it's a "market", or at least it's resembling that. Everyone is trying to have their piece of that cake. And like the history have shown, when society contact with something, it always create dynamics. In this case, information is a very cheap communication means, the dynamics is impactful. People keep insulting each other on what are stupid privacy measures. It's like the politics in an authoritarian country I were born in, I'm so used to and tired of it. And because most of people on the "HTTP net" (or worse, Web3) agree that gemini is stupid, then I think I can just pick the most stupid one and reside in it so I can be considered stupid as a whole. There's no debate when one's already settled at the rigid stupid isle.