r/PrivacyGuides will remain restricted

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The original was posted on /r/privacyguides by /u/JonahAragon on 2023-06-19 20:17:03+00:00.

For our current subreddit subscribers: We are going to continue posting website and blog updates from contributors to the open-source privacyguides.org project here, and a few times a week we will highlight discussions happening on our Discourse and Kbin/Lemmy communities that we think you all will want to check out, and possibly post some other privacy-related links we think you'll find interesting.

We've had a pretty solid 10-ish year run of social media companies like Reddit being relatively stable platforms for communities to exist on, so I think it's easy to forget a few things:

1. Reddit is social media, with all of the privacy, ethical, and other concerns that are associated with that. Cutting it out of your life will be difficult, but I think we can make it through this :)
2. We really weren't particularly worse off before Reddit came around. Reddit is a glorified forum which provides some minor convenience features. Find some good, actual forums and lead the resurgence of the "old-school" internet again, in the long-term we'll all be better off.

It isn't impossible to teach new people about privacy and security without building communities on Reddit, Facebook, etc. Perhaps it will be slightly harder, but we're up for the challenge.

Thanks everyone, we hope to see you on more respectful platforms soon :)