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as engineer with almost 6 years of experience: 90% of people in general don't give a damn, persoanlly I'm like that
Been in IT for 18 years. I have smart home stuff because i got tired of sitting down on the couch with my beer, que poped for my game and then realizing i forgot to turn off the kitchen light. So yup, smart house, cameras, locks etc because it's fun. Can someone hack my house? Sure, but they could just as easily put a brick through the window and come in. A lot more people are qualified to do that than hack my voice controlled lights.
Imagine making your own protocol for smart house before it was mainstream.
Lemmy in general has a hard-on for google/windows/non-Foss hate and extreme privacy :) Double edged sword imo, it's probably what makes lemmy great, but the whole shtick also becomes old fast :)
Personally I'll stick to my Google assistance, windows gaming pc and limited privacy (anonimity to a reasonable degree, almost no pictures of myself or my family on public social media).
Life is quite stress-free that way tbh :)
It's also what will make lemmy fail. Average users are pretty much bullied away back to Reddit. If you want Reddit to fail, you can't make the alternative a shittier more toxic place to be. Lemmy currently has ~30K active monthly users and dropping steadily.
Personally with that number dropping, I don't see many instances staying up, as it's not free to operate, and app developers will surely dwindle.
Lemmy is absolutely not a welcoming place if you are interested in anything other than public transit, linux, or FOSS. Lemmy will end up like VOAT. Lemmy may not be filled with child porn, fat hate, and trans hate like VOAT was, but Lemmy is definitely filled with extremists.
Yeah my accounts keep getting banned from major communities for not being violently communist enough. It's a pretty off-putting to see people saying that all Jews should be murdered and dragged through the streets and then getting banned for saying I don't even understand what that has to do with socialism.
Similar. I take what I consider to be reasonable precautions... I have smarthome stuff but I stick with standards that work locally, or if I must look elsewhere then I aim for FOSS and/or reputable companies. I avoid social media, and avoid putting much of my Identity online.
Other than that... I dunno, we already live in the privacy post-apocalypse. It's unavoidable, someone is recording you in every store, some friend will inevitably post some picture of you on Facebook, you're going to have to deal with people who prefer WhatsApp over Signal or whatever. Just enjoy it and don't stress.
It's not what makes Lemmy great. It's paranoid Luddite nonsense. I mean if people want to live like that fine, but as an engineer with a properly secured home network I think it's obnoxious.
Not saying I'm a fan of that exact behaviour, but a lot of the tech behind the scenes is driven by passionate Foss ppl :)
I often roll my eyes when I see fear and doom mongering about privacy, but hey, the other side of the coin is equally annoying (people over sharing every single thing they do online :))