Privacy Guides - Lemmy.one
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In the digital age, protecting your personal information might seem like an impossible task. We’re here to help. This is a community for sharing news about privacy, posting information about cool privacy tools and services, and getting advice about your privacy journey. — You can subscribe to this community from any Kbin or Lemmy instance: - Subscribe on Kbin.social [https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]] - Subscribe on Lemmy.one [https://lemmy.one/c/privacyguides] - Subscribe on Lemmy.ml [https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]] - Subscribe on Beehaw.org [https://beehaw.org/c/[email protected]] Learn more… [https://lemmy.one/post/355] — Check out our website at privacyguides.org [https://www.privacyguides.org] before asking your questions here. We’ve tried answering the common questions and recommendations there! Want to get involved? The website is open-source on GitHub [https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org], and your help would be appreciated! — This community is the “official” Privacy Guides community on Lemmy, which can be verified here [https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/13x7oe3/who_wants_to_try_out_lemmy_privacyguideslemmyone/]. Other “Privacy Guides” communities on other Lemmy servers are not moderated by this team or associated with the website. — Moderation Rules: 1. We prefer posting about open-source software whenever possible. 2. This is not the place for self-promotion if you are not listed on privacyguides.org [http://privacyguides.org]. If you want to be listed, make a suggestion on our forum first [https://discuss.privacyguides.net/c/site-development/suggestions/6]. 3. No soliciting engagement: Don’t ask for upvotes, follows, etc. 4. Surveys, Fundraising, and Petitions must be pre-approved by the mod team. 5. Be civil, no violence, hate speech. Assume people here are posting in good faith. 6. Don’t repost topics which have already been covered here. 7. News posts must be related to privacy and security, and your post title must match the article headline exactly. Do not editorialize titles, you can post your opinions in the post body or a comment. 8. Memes/images/video posts that could be summarized as text explanations should not be posted. Infographics and conference talks from reputable sources are acceptable. 9. No help vampires: This is not a tech support subreddit, don’t abuse our community’s willingness to help. Questions related to privacy, security or privacy/security related software and their configurations are acceptable. 10. No misinformation: Extraordinary claims must be matched with evidence. 11. Do not post about VPNs or cryptocurrencies which are not listed on privacyguides.org [https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/]. See Rule 2 for info on adding new recommendations to the website. 12. General guides or software lists are not permitted. Original sources and research about specific topics are allowed as long as they are high quality and factual. We are not providing a platform for poorly-vetted, out-of-date or conflicting recommendations.

They aren’t the most controversy-free group, but there’s a lot of value in their existence, especially for people newly working toward privacy. It’s also nice to see more groups acknowledging Lemmy

  • jonah@lemmy.one
    2·
    1 year ago

    I don’t know what controversy we’re involved in, but we’re happy to be here!

  • cavemeat@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Privacy guides is great, they indirectly helped me degoogle my phone and make my laptop much more secure.

  • Swimmerman96@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m happy to see them come over and try Lemmy. Not only because it’s content I check in on, but it’s a good way to expose others to the concepts behind Lemmy and give them a potential starting place finding a home and start discovering.

  • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.mlEnglish
    05·
    1 year ago

    PrivacyGuides is one of the most harmful groups out there as far as their moderation goes. Its head Jonah (admin of lemmy.one instance created for PrivacyGuides) stole off $10000 ($17,500 in all) PrivacyTools.io donations and put it into his private account, they seized PTIO subreddit which is locked to this day, they made a malicious GrapheneOS figurehead Tommy a moderator immediately after he published a faux hitpiece on me (which trended on PG for a month), and they protect toxic GrapheneOS devs/mods fervently to promote Google and Apple (mods/heads all are American/Canadian nationalists).

    https://www.privacytools.io/guides/jonah-aragon-privacyguides-failed-attempt-to-takeover

    You can find more here, and upon reading comments in here. He purposely evades and silences all criticism on reddit. https://old.reddit.com/r/u_lo________________ol/comments/1314x2x/why_did_i_do_this/ji5l5uz?context=300

    I have critiqued them for the past 2 years, and shared what I documented here few days ago. They are busy with vote manipulation on my posts shared both on c/privatelife and c/privacy. I am sure recently people know of GrapheneOS dev’s incident with Louis Rossmann.

    Moreover, someone shared my critique writeup on their lemmy.one instance, where they removed my writeup immediately, have disabled downvoting (a form of evading criticisms), and have blocked/defederated Lemmygrad.ml instance as well, calling its users “liberals”. All in the span of one day.

    Please avoid celebrating every entity recognising Lemmy, and focus on organic growth with welcoming good people, not malicious people like this who shelter more malicious trolls. Many PrivacyGuides members often call me “chinese commie”, that is how bad they can be towards people.

    • bbbhltz@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Oh wow, look at that: They did deactivate downvoting… Well, there are still ways to downvote but I guess if it is hidden on the web it serves their purpose. You’re not the only critic.