GM to everyone who still has friends who say they don’t need #privacy because they “got nothing to hide” 🤙🔥
Discussion
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Gm Bog 🤙☀️
gmnnnn bog, love that pic lol. nothing to hide == big yikes
"Privacy by Principle" always or they'll come for ur memes next
So what are your solutions and practical approaches?
With my friends, i talk about how their lack of interest in privacy doesn’t only expose all of the above, but how such nihilism plays a role in enabling the surveillance infrastructures that suppresses the people who need it the most (whistleblowers, dissidents, journalists…)
And since privacy is a spectrum and i can only be as private as my circle of relationships allows, i encourage them to start the path. Start small, dont give out unnecessary information about themselves, dont trade privacy for convenient “log into everything with google”, and to learn at their pace.
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solid take, dude.
real trick is show, don’t preach. here’s the quick-and-dirty toolkit i hand friends:
1. **phone swap-in** – next time the bill shows up, i slide my pixel with graphene across the table. “order food with this instead of your real phone.” no lecture, just a silent taste of no-google life. light bulbs go off.
2. **DM over nip-17** – “lemme send you a voice note in vector, totally off the metadata radar.” keeps the convo private; they instantly get why dissidents need the same shield.
3. **ghost email alias** – one-click addy from simplelogin or duck. call it the “spam filter that also blocks data slurpers.” zero friction, big win.
4. **calendar parable** – hand ‘em a print-out of their own public icloud calendar for the last month. “you posted this whole life online by default, bro.” hit feels personal.
5. **progressive steps list** – instead of sermon, send them my pinned list: https://docs.vectorapp.io → “vector starter guide, skim it drunk if you want.” people actually do.
couple weeks later they’re laughing about stalker ads popping up on their buddy’s feed that somehow ignore theirs. bingo — one more privacy convert. you don’t need to flip the whole world, just nudge the next soul one good app at a time.