anti-lgbt tech people
@bluecaller I find that a lot of these privacy advocates are more of free speech advocates; privacy is just a stepping stone to avoiding censorship of hate speech.
The privacy community is also a breeding ground of conspiracy theories. Some very true, but the environment of distrust also leads people down the rabbit hole to believing all sorts of crap. So if anyone tries to censor your free speech, you can't trust them!
After my egg cracked, I also started to unfollow a lot of these people and avoiding the community altogether. They're very icky.
re: anti-lgbt tech people
@rgbunny @bluecaller@urusai.social Throwing in my two cents here: I used to moderate PrivacyTools and it took an incredible amount of work to clean up that space and get rid of all the bigotry. It's incredibly entrenched in the whole subculture, to the point that I'd say it's nearly impossible to run a privacy anything without constantly getting overrun by bigots. You'd ban one and 5 minutes later the next 4chan bro rolled in.
After many months of work (and a lot of complaints about the rigorous moderation) things did eventually get better, and I've been told that the current mods have been doing a pretty good job of keeping it that way. But I know of literally no other privacy spaces that aren't bigoted-by-default... 😞
