I know, it's oxymoronic that this community even exists.

RealPrivacy is a community for sharing any information that's far down the 'privacy iceberg'. In other words, genuine privacy focused discussion without loyalty in any direction. Privacy is the only mantra. OPSEC is included in the privacy umbrella.

Other privacy communities are likely better for the vast majority of conversations. In fact, many of my own conversations I would class as belonging to another community. If you're not contributing in genuinely useful ways, you should post elsewhere, please. We're all silly at times, nobody is judging you for your post history, since we as the RealPrivacy community will always be confident that the info within it is high-quality in at least its effort, but even more importantly, its substance. Regardless of your activity outside of this community.

The idea behind this community is also to allow for discussions that would normally be had in much more anonymized places, both on and off the internet. It is hard to find a community without irrational loyalty, fear, assumptions - but these are antithetical to this community.

Don't be afraid to post. Don't be afraid of corrections. Don't be afraid to ask questions. You don't need to have the perfect solution (it doesn't exist), you don't need to be an expert at everything, there are no stupid questions as long as they're sincere and in the spirit of the community.

Here, facts and statistics reign supreme.

Don't break the lemmy.ca instance rules. You're responsible for whatever you post outside of that.

I'm not using a burner, are you? Self-censorship is a sign of oppression and fear of those that govern you. Are you worried about who governs you? While the topic is privacy, this community is by its nature, not private. Please keep that in mind when you're choosing to share information.

I don't want to be the sheriff, we can either coexist under a common understanding of the spirit here, or this community doesn't exist. I will obviously have to moderate to a basic degree and would be willing to consider others along the way if they align with the vision. If you don't want to be here, you're always free to leave. Please assume everyone's words are sincere, genuine, and kind-hearted. We co-operate, or we falter. Purely for content moderation purposes, please use English other than in exceptional circumstances. I do not advertise this group in any way, there are reasons to use other privacy related communities, and one is not necessarily better than the other depending on your goals in the moment.

Also, we're not privacy-mad robots, you can be human. Let's not make it weird, fellas.

Let's mix the kind heart of Wendel with the passion of Steve Burke and the effort of Linus Torvalds. Substitute whoever you want, the point is the spirit.