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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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How do yall go about meeting new people while still maintaining a decent level of privacy? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am soon moving out for university and am going to meet a bunch of new folks. But I was wondering how do you go about approaching this with privacy in mind?

It is a little bit whonky to ask someone you just met to download Signal, if it is a group of people then it is more acceptable, or like how do you keep in contact if they don't use any of the messaging platforms you use such as Signal and Telegram, and if you don't use any of the ones they use such as Whatsapp or Instagram DMs (yes zoomers in the US use these) or Snapchat? Do you just use SMS where videos are absolute shit quality and you have no privacy there either?

Let me know how you deal with this issue.

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[–] RQG 4 points 1 year ago

In the geek community signal is pretty common. I meet most of my friends through D&D, board games and other tabletop games these days. Those are usually in person.

If possible I used signal instead of WhatsApp groups to organize the stuff. When there is only WhatsApp then I'm willing to compromise for organizational groups. I don't use my phone for much so it isn't that much info they can get from my number and interests at least.

Other than that I use no social media. Don't ever let anyone tell you to make or keep friends you need social media. You absolutely don't. Maybe for some kinds of friends you do but I guess then those won't me mine.