I just want to say the only reason I didn’t donate sooner were:

1. I needed a friendly reminder (the lemmy post was that reminder for me) because life got busy
2. I didn’t know that Lemmy didn’t already generate enough to cover the costs of two developers

I couldn’t be happier to donate! The work you’re doing is amazing! It’s helped me kick my 15 year long reddit addiction & reminded me of the original promise of the Internet

Samuel Beckett memes were not on my bingo card for today

As a trans person please stop. You’re not helping & are being underhandedly misogynistic.

You need to stay away from feminism and enby activism entirely until you’ve humbled yourself and seriously sat with how problematic this take is.

You’re not helping anybody with that. Least of all enbies/trans people. And not just because it makes us look bad either, though that’s certainly part of it.

I’m sorry, what?

It’s women-centered because it’s “against patriarchy”… not because it’s witchy. And they are trans & queer inclusive as well.

Unfortunately that international pressure appears to be disintegrating before our eyes…

Yeah that part.

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I used to think so too, but last night I found this super cute and informative blog about recovering our free will online and now I’m super hyped about NNCP and mesh networks!! 🥹

Please tell me more about myself, since you know me so well! Not all of us bootlick for meta

Meta directly opposes the collective interests and human rights of all working class people, so I think the better question is how come you don’t care.

There are many good reasons to not use WhatsApp. You’ve already correctly identified 47 of them.

SMS works fine in any country.

And you can isolate your business requirements from your personal life.

SMS works fine.

There are exactly 0 good reasons to use whatsapp anyways…

economy collapsing and all we do is eat hot chip & lie

Thanks! There really isn’t any reason for me to be targeted so I think I’m fine personally. Privacy is a collective value though, so I wish to maximize it as an expression of my values.

Yeah totally fair thanks for clarifying! I would love to minimize the use of SIM cards in my life. Maybe using a faraday bag. But I also won’t be travelling to the US or ME…

IMEI number is out there and associated with home.

But if I remove the SIM, put it on airplane mode, and then travel, how can they detect my IMEI in a new location? Only by seizing the phone physically or perhaps if the emergency services settings leak it without a SIM right?

Interesting stuff tbh. At the end of the day I don’t have strong reasons for hiding except simply not liking the invasion of privacy. So I’m fine. But it does make me want to ditch my phone entirely sometimes.

That makes sense, thank you! I’m not expecting any issues with LEO so I’m fine. But out of principle and interest I like to still understand what I’m giving up and minimize how much privacy they take from me.

Thanks anyway, it’s good info for anybody reading!