Safety reminders for these times:
- Direct messages on Fedi are not encrypted.
- If your instance is hosted in the US, the admin has to comply with US law.
- Discord text chat is not encrypted. Video is.
- Encrypted group chats are only as secure as the people with access and their security practices.

If you're interested in protecting the contents of your conversations or work, follow the #privacy tag. People posts some really interesting things on there.

Your privacy protects your friends too. Do it for all of us.

An excellent step-by-step executable guide to implementing better privacy. https://www.optoutproject.net/the-cyber-cleanse-take-back-your-digital-footprint/

Recommended privacy people:
- @Em0nM4stodon
- @techlore
- @privacyguides
- @thenewoil

More advice from smarter people:
- Passwords & General Privacy hygiene: https://infosec.exchange/@avoidthehack/113867140078775299
- VPNs: https://mas.to/@joeturner/113867181288155342

Recommended privacy communities:
- https://discuss.techlore.tech
- https://discuss.privacyguides.net

The rest of this thread describes options that I'm considering and my personal privacy journey.

(Thanks to @joeturner and everyone else in the community for your recommendations.)

Tracking bits of this migration via the #MayDeFAANGing tag.