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   Dave Rahardja (drahardja@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 11:39:44 JST Dave Rahardja

   I know it sounds obvious but don’t do your #organizing on Meta or Google properties. IMO the chances that they will begin to search even your DMs for incriminating content and snitch on you at some point is pretty high.

   Use end-to-end encrypted services like Signal.

   In fact, switch to Signal even if you *aren’t* organizing anyway. Why give them the pleasure of hosting your content?

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     inquiline (inquiline@assemblag.es)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 05:21:55 JST inquiline

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     • Jeff Atwood

     @codinghorror @drahardja

     True story: Last year a very unobjectionable list serv faculty have used for years for being windbags got taken down with no notice by Google, because someone maliciously reported it, because of a message some campus community members did not like. (This was in the peak Gaza protests moment. The list was moderated & the item that passed over it was mundane, and factual, but still objectionable to some.)

     Don't trust Google for your organizing, no way.

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     Jeff Atwood (codinghorror@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 05:21:56 JST Jeff Atwood

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     @drahardja I think google is still trustable. Meta never has been.

     Steve's Place repeated this.