In Telegram, you never have to expose your phone number. If you like walking into traps then of course you can.
But can make minimal efforts to not be a degenerate avoiding this obvious easily avoidable trap.
How to avoid exposing your phone number
Make a group called i'm not a complete utter idiot. Whenever you have a friend wanting to connect, make a group link, send it to them, have them join. After joining have them send a message in the group. Just, "Hi". Nothing more. Less is more.
Look for that message and click on the person's name. You are now connected. Send them a personal message, "Hi!".
You can also add them as a contact without sharing your phone number.
Your friend will probably be a degenerate and expose their phone number. Teach them how to go into settings to always hide it.
Try not to call them a degenerate, degenerates hate that.
Also try not to think of them as a degenerate, they will already know that and be proud of it and not understand why you don't share their enthusiasm.
So control what thoughts you project into the ether. If you have to change the topic in your mind to something involving flowers singing birds and clouds.
recognizing the pattern of owners/mods abusing power and no one really agreeing what exactly that entails, will always find that decentralization is the way that it has to be.
We tried centralization and doesn't go well. The answer is not to keep trying the same thing.
Was presented with this question. Lets simplify it and remove the spin.
Are you ok with your enemy using the software you've published?
I quickly answered, yes! It's open source. This must include enemies
Similar to free speech, censorship aside, if not willing to defend essholes being essholes then don't really have free speech
Linus Torvalds slipped, tossing Russian maintainers. Politicizing open source makes it open for some, but not for others.
Which is a real dilemma cuz i hate everyone equally
To answer your question, the fediverse welcomes Nazi fascists commis gays whatever running instances. If don't like the instance moderators can always jump on another instance. And instances owners do not federate with instances they don't like.
Wow! What a tongue lashing. That stern talking to is bound to leave an impression.
He will have to let his employer know that compensation will need to take into account danger pay along with covering medical and death insurance. And then go onto seek reimbursement for mental anguish.
He's luck to have survived. Those villians at the UN will regret all the hot air they are pumping into the atmosphere.
i respect your opinion, your right to have an opinion, glad you shared your opinion, glad to read opposing opinions, Glad your opinion was not suppressed or censored or shadow banned, that someone having purchased access doesn't drown out your opinion, and others refrained from ganging up to suppress the opposing view.
Sometimes in echo chambers the opposing opinion turns out to be right.
This is not one of those cases. <-- my opinion position
But i really liked that you posted and the opposing opinion was given a fair access to eye balls
We are all on federated lemmy and have moved off State owned or sponsored corporate social media.
Whether you lean left right or something else, everyone needs communication and financial privacy. Otherwise the State will crush you. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but on a long enough time line, it's inevitable, YOU WILL BE CRUSHED.
The State and MSM lost the narrative. And we will not regress
Read the title, skipped MSM / one-way media article, came straight to the comment section
login walls, pay walls, spun prose, AI generated noise ... no way. That era is over. Let it die. Have a funeral for it, put a stake in it, and a heavy slab over the gravesite.
US gov't cannot be trusted to make the ultimate decision to kill someone.
Trump of all people should know this.
As commander in chief, he can order the military to kill people. Having the Just-us department do it is unnecessary. But then those deaths are on him. If the Just-Us department does it, it was out of his hands.
Nope it's pentesting. Gotta keep up with IT terminology. If the author didn't intend it, it's malware.
If any spyware or back doors are found, foss community can quickly deal with it.
This happened with xz, a rogue maintainer snuck in malware which was by chance found. But there would be no chance if it were closed source or talented maintainers were so appreciated by society that they were mourned after starving to death.
In Telegram, you never have to expose your phone number. If you like walking into traps then of course you can.
But can make minimal efforts to not be a degenerate avoiding this obvious easily avoidable trap.
How to avoid exposing your phone number
Make a group called
i'm not a complete utter idiot. Whenever you have a friend wanting to connect, make a group link, send it to them, have them join. After joining have them send a message in the group. Just, "Hi". Nothing more. Less is more.Look for that message and click on the person's name. You are now connected. Send them a personal message, "Hi!".
You can also add them as a contact without sharing your phone number.
Your friend will probably be a degenerate and expose their phone number. Teach them how to go into settings to always hide it.
Try not to call them a degenerate, degenerates hate that.
Also try not to think of them as a degenerate, they will already know that and be proud of it and not understand why you don't share their enthusiasm.
So control what thoughts you project into the ether. If you have to change the topic in your mind to something involving flowers singing birds and clouds.