Absolutely would have moved the needle towards Linux for 12-year-old me. (Already on Linux now.)

Are we moving off here to Piefed, or do we just have two communities on different instances?

Since this is a community trying to actually help people, perhaps some of the uplifting news-type communities, or take-action-to-help-others-and-yourself ones? I know takeyourtimeback or something like that was posted here, maybe going through communities posted here in the back?

nah, just post there a lot as a spite move against all the doom articles in a way that is productive instead of putting others down

Eh. I have half a foot in terminally-onlineland and half a foot in normie-land and I don't use Facebook. One friend moving off Instagram got me to pull the trigger to do the same. It's possible, and showing people you can and some steps can help make it less intimidating.

wonder if you have partnered up with the various degoogle communities like degoogle@discuss.tchncs.de

would be welcome to promote over at deshittification@thebrainbin.org

One interesting thought I’ve had is actually that if we strip this signal to websites/apps and do not report an age range at all, but the vast majority of users DO, that actually gives us a more unique and trackable browser fingerprint.

As someone who is not a fan of adding the age field I'm curious what people think of this.

Thank you for replying without attacking me (as I've seen other people do to each other on this topic). I upvoted you.

I have no idea what to think because this sounds reasonable, but so do the arguments that it's a slippery slope and complying now makes it easier to surveil us all later. (Yes, I know this is the name of a fallacy. I'm curious as to when is it a fallacy and when is it not. I can absolutely imagine people saying "slippery slope fallacy" and being right, I can also imagine a different situation where people say "slippery slope fallacy" to something and it happens exactly as the people whose claim is being denied with "slippery slope" fallacy said.)

I guess that is why controversial issues are controversial, no easy and obvious resolution?

As an autistic nerd without true technological and historical expertise, it's very difficult to know what to think and disheartening to read others' perspectives on this because instead of measured discussion, there is "bootlicker" and "surveillance state paranoia" being thrown around to dismiss the other side's ideas and holy shit am I sick of the hostility and personal attacks here. I think both sides are plausible, don't know which one is right, and it seems Lemmy is not going to be able to help me decide which one is more plausible.

I really hope you didn't mean "raging autist nerds" in the derogatory 4chan way where a disability I didn't choose to have is an insult, where people having strong emotions over a niche topic is something bad to mock and insult. Language is language, not everyone who has goodwill/is neutral towards a population knows the correct inoffensive language, etc. etc. but I have to admit "autist" in combination with its use in a phrase referring to people you don't like, whose diagnosis status you don't know, really makes me draw unpleasant conclusions.

I guess maybe this is a lesson that no matter how knowledgeable I think public forum users are, heated topics will include people being dismissive and insulting others unless there is very heavy moderation in place to keep things civil, and that I have to find somewhere else to find knowledgeable people giving their interpretation of information.