Some time ago when Discord used Surveillance Services to face scan all their users a lot of possible alternatives where thrown around.

  • It should be already hosted by someone
  • have voice chat
  • Be easy to sign up to so that i can convince people
  • early_riser@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Here’s my counterpoint: you may think what you do and say is innocuous, and it may very well be innocuous… right now. Who knows what people will think about any given topic in ten years. Who knows who’ll be in charge then, or how much power they may have to deal with “them”. I’m pretty sure I remember the dictator of some central-Asian former Soviet republic going around arresting dentists, so nothing is too absurd to consider IMO. I also don’t do anything I think others would find particularly damning, but I prefer to maintain a healthy buffer between my online self and my meatspace self. But I do genuinely wonder if I’m being unreasonably paranoid sometimes.