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Suggestions for privacy and security blog (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by jjlinux@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm entertaining the idea of starting a digital privacy and security blog. As a matter of fact, I am self hosting it right now, but mainly for friends, family and acquaintances. It's super basic, more rants than articles honestly, 🤣

Since the only 2 social networks I have are Lemmy and Mastodon, I've been avoiding allowing sharing to Facebook, Twitter and other mainstream SNs.

My wife thinks I should just host it on a cloud and share it everywhere with the argument of, and I quote, "the platforms you use are already full of people as paranoid as you. If you really want to bring your knowledge and experience to others, you should allow us to share to the platforms full of people oblivious to the dangers you constantly slam us with" (which is absolutely true. I'm a thorn on their side, lol.

What do you guys think? Should I add features to share to those places? Would you if it was you? Under no circumstances will I post on any of them, and if I allow to share from my blog, my inner circle would be the one doing the sharing.

I do want to help spread our gospel, but I think that most people in those platforms are just to far gone to even care. I don't even know what to think anymore. I've only written 2 articles so far anyway, so it's not like I'd be the New York Times of privacy or anything.

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[–] communism@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your friends who use spying social media platforms can share them there, if it's a public blog. And if none of your target audience (friends and family) use Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, etc then there's no need for them to be shared on those platforms?

Also, ime from when I had to use Facebook because of a group I was in, the group was very resistant to any privacy advice. I think the vast majority of people on these platforms are on those platforms specifically because they don't care.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I agree. But my wife does have a point. From all the feedback, those who want to share can just copy the link and paste it to their platforms, which would be good. The more normies see these in their environment, the higher chance of people starting to care, but I will not add mainstream SNs access directly from my site. Thanks so much guys.