This isn't true at all. Most people do not care about privacy; those that do are an extreme minority. You (presumably) and I are part of that minority yet even we still comment here, in a public space. The issue with forums has never been about privacy because most are content with pseudonymity. It is a big mistake to think we need to cater to the extreme minority in the privacy space when tackling big issues that involve a majority who do not care.

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[–] tfm [S, A] 1 point 2 years ago

That's why I specifically wrote "completely public" not "private".

I think most people know that a discord server with a few hundred or thousand members can hardly be considered private. But I can imagine that there are people who don't want to put it directly online for everybody to find on Google. Not that I like that.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 point 2 years ago*

Yeah, I don't post private shit on forums, I discuss things publically so I can collectively have a conversation with countless other people.

If you want to have a private personal conversation sure use a private chat room, but I need that public space to discuss and learn, active publically accessible forums / lemmy / other equivalent communities are goldmines of information that benefits all.

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