FOSS and focus on privacy does that to some people, they feel superior because they worry about those things they see as being beneficial.
Iām sure many of the users from the before time were here specifically to not use a closed source, data gathering platform, so theyāre a bigger proportion of users than they were on Reddit and they tolerate the most extreme elements of their community that also happen to be the most vocal.
TL;DR: Reddit is for normies and now normies are on a platform where radicals were everywhere and part of the majority before they arrived.
Sometimes those extreme privacy preachers remind me of doomsday preppers.
I too reduced my data finger print, started using uBlock, thought more often if the data in a registration form is really needed for the service they provide (and didnāt register when in doubt), and so onā¦
I donāt have Facebook, WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter (anymore), the only things I have are Reddit, Lemmy and Mastodon.
Still I donāt inspect every bit going through my network with Wireshark and PiHole to see, if some packet sent while watching a movie may contain personal data. At some point you gotta live a little instead of full-time fear mongering, doomsday preaching for the tech apocalypse.
I have reduced my digital fingerprints by a large margin with common sense, I donāt need a 100% privacy speedrun, what counts is that you do something. And the effects show, especially in the form of less spam and recommendations for items youāll never need.
Google knows which topics I search for, big whoop, wouldnāt be much of a search engine otherwise.
