Good question.

I think most people are aware of the privacy aspects, at least subconsciously. Even those who are just your normal, every day, average internet users who have zero technical background make jokes about, "Wow, I was talking about this with a friend and now I'm seeing ads for it everywhere." So, in a sense, they're aware but they they think it's coincidental or not a big deal that they're receiving targeted ads. Some, may even find it convenient.

For fun, here is a list of some large data breaches in the recent years that would impact your normal, every day internet user:

(List below made from https://www.upguard.com/blog/biggest-data-breaches )

• CAM4, an adult streaming website, data breach with 10.88 billion records including: Full names, Email addresses, Sexual orientation, Chat transcripts, Email correspondence transcripts, Password hashes, IP addresses, Payment logs.

• Yahoo. The data breach of 2017 with an impact of over 3 billion users. An investigation revealed that users' passwords in clear text, payment card data and bank information were not stolen. Nonetheless, this remains one of the largest data breaches of this type in history.

• Aadhaar data breach of 2017 impacted over 1.1 billion people. This massive data breach was the result of a data leak on a system run by a state-owned utility company. The breach allowed access to private information of Aadhaar holders, exposing their names, their unique 12-digit identity numbers, and their bank details.

• First American Financial Corp. In May 2019, First American Financial Corporation reportedly leaked 885 million users' sensitive records that date back more than 16 years, including bank account records, social security numbers, wire transactions, and other mortgage paperwork.

• Verifications.io data breach. In February 2019, email address validation service verifications.io exposed 763 million unique email addresses in a MongoDB instance that was left publicly facing with no password. Many records also included names, phone numbers, IP addresses, dates of birth and genders.

• Facebook, impacting 540 million users.. In April 2019, the UpGuard Cyber Risk team revealed two third-party Facebook app datasets had been exposed to the public Internet. One, originating from the Mexico-based media company Cultura Colectiva, weighs in at 146 gigabytes and contains over 540 million records detailing comments, likes, reactions, account names, FB IDs and more.

So, you asked:

You think this topic will be important for general public in years to come? Why?

It absolutely should be. 110% should be. But some people just don't care. A lot of the, "Well I have nothing to hide" crowd will willingly give away their information and not be absolutely outraged when it's misused or made available to the public through negligence or through malicious intent (or a combo of both).

That is indeed correct — I merged the PR earlier. :-)

I’m one of the two main developers of the Yggdrasil project, so it’s especially great to see new and active services popping up. Thanks for providing access over Ygg!

Happy to help to mod /f/yggdrasil if you like.

Awesome! How'd you find out about this site?

EDIT: Just saw the username, so you probably fulfilled the pull request to have this site listed on yours. :)

If you'd like to mod /f/yggdrasil , let me know.

Good call on Ghostery, I just looked into it, and you're right. I left it in the post but striked it out and added a warning.

Connecting over Yggdrasil :-)

HTTPS Everywhere, Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin + Nano defender and violentmonkey for some scripts.

For what I've known, Ghostery sells info, or had a polemic about that, I suggest you to check it and uninstall it, sometimes less is more.

I saw. Added it as a featured forum already. Thanks! Feel free to announce over at /f/newforums

alreadyburnt is on ramble as /u/idk and one of the mods over at /f/i2p currently.

If you ever need any help you can post there or hop onto IRC. I usually lurk IRC myself and go there for when something isn't working as I want it to.

They don't. I added the, "X-Post from /f/cults -" part of the title manually, haha.

didn't know crossposts worked posting the url :0

Thanks. I've asked u/alreadyburnt about this issue over on reddit. \ Seems to be a known limitation of the I2P approach to anonymity.

Cool, I'll look into the hosting of the I2P router other than on the premises.

Why

yggdrasil is like a giant lan party that spans the entire internet.

only cum inside anime girls?

even with context i don't think i'd understand this.

As I like to point out when people throw "conspiracy theory" around as a pejorative. The very existence of the USA is the result of a conspiracy, many of whose meetings were held in a Masonic hall to boot!

The assassination of President Lincoln was a conspiracy, no one argues that. Prisons are full of people convicted of conspiracy.

People conspire, which is what makes that term so insufferably meaningless.

I did the same thing. I now look at it as another way to diversify. I have maybe 2 or 3% of my total savings in crypto, half in Etherium and half in BTC. I have a tiny amount of Chainlink from when I thought it made sense to buy on rumors in the hopes of catching the next huge jump.

But there are so many small cap coins now I don't see how you can possibly differentiate between true hopefuls and "pump and dump" type stuff. So I picked two biggies as just another way to diversify. Each pay day I put a small amount of money in to them, same as I do index funds.

haha money go brrrrr

I think it depends on the country the website is hosted in and whether or not they care about DMCA requests.

I have a good relationship with my server provider and discussed their Acceptable Use Policy and what I wanted to be allowed on this site.

We good.

Not a bad idea. I'll add "publicly viewable network graphs" to the to-do list.

/u/kabd , how familiar are you with Lokinet? Would you want to create and mod a Lokinet forum here? If you do, I can make it a featured forum like those for the other alternative networks.

One and Two where already taken :(

I would second a matrix server vs a discord server. For TUI there's a couple, a weechat script (weechat-matrix), gomuks, matrixcli, and matrix-commander.

List of Matrix Clients

also ... FYI matrix is secure, just not quite anonymous, afaik only over clearnet as well.

I'll check it out! I want this site to be accessible through as many networks as possible.

i tried to watch jojo but it's not my cup of tea.