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This position is full of generalisations and false dichotomies. Care / don't care, private / not private.
This is pure hyperbole. Sure a lot of idiots don't realise that the platforms they're using are not private, but it's usually only admins that can access their stuff - it's not "on the public record".
The honest question then is why are you or anyone else online period? Who do you vote for? Where do you have accounts? The list goes on and on. The world has spoken. We are the vast minority regardless of if we are "right" or not. I agree with those privacy minded individuals but at the same time I have a life and in the grand scheme of things there are far larger problems out there.
Sorry I don't understand what you're getting at.
One can participate online and make choices about what risks to privacy we are willing to tolerate.
It's not a binary "everything online is not private" because privacy is subjective - it depends on the context.
You're proving my point. Everyone here is screaming into the wind when the vast majority have spoken. They're willing to tolerate the risks. Those risks may be with google, or Facebook, or Lemmy but it's always risk.
What I see here is a lot of complaints about everyone not being privacy minded from people on soapboxes. We do not represent an "average technical person". You would be surprised what seasoned InfoSec people do and the tools they use. The path to full privacy is one of isolation and insanity.
Control what you can. It would make a lot of you much happier people.
I don't think I am proving your point, you're just not actually reading what I'm saying, or maybe we're talking about two different things.
You're talking about "everyone", while I'm talking about me.
What even is full privacy. My point is that the risks to privacy are many and varied. As I said it's possible to participate online while making intelligent choices about what privacy we're willing to give up.
Someone already explained to you the difference between privacy and secrecy, which is quite simple.
Privacy: you don't want your mother to see a lewd picture from you, but you would want your partner to Secrecy: you don't want anybody to know you eat poop