Jonah@Home @jonah@social.privacytools.io

In case you need to email me, I have a new PGP key! Please download & sign & whatever: https://jonaharagon.com/keys/ 0x6A957C9A9A9429F7

I changed my mind: I want to try out going invite-only and see how it works out for us. We're getting a lot of registrations but it seems like most accounts aren't even used. I strongly believe in quality over quantity and I hope adding some limits will help keep our conversations great!

More info @ https://social.privacytools.io/about/more#invites — definitely open to feedback on this.

Hey everyone! Just a friendly reminder that this instance is privately-operated and does have a code of conduct. It's a simple one but it does exist! https://social.privacytools.io/about/more

I highly recommend people check it out and use common sense and there won't be an issue. We are highly responsive to user reports made as well, and if you don't think we're handling something quick enough you can always ping me. Definitely want to discourage instance blocks to avoid fediverse fragmentation 😄

I should have a pinned message to new users.

Welcome to social.privacytools.io everyone! If you have any questions feel free to mention me in a post or DM and I'd be happy to answer them!

Also, adding a profile picture, bio, and an #introduction post will go a long way towards discovering new and interesting people in the fediverse 😄

In case you need to email me, I have a new PGP key! Please download & sign & whatever: https://jonaharagon.com/keys/ 0x6A957C9A9A9429F7

SURVEY: What (privacy-related) hardware do you use? (Please reply on one of the posts linked below if possible for you):
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/f4uwua/what_hardware_do_you_use/
Forum: https://forum.privacytools.io/t/what-hardware-do-you-use/2717/4
GitHub: https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/pull/1713
We are especially interested in mobile hardware, laptops, and security keys, but also things like routers, IoT stuff, etc...

Hello, good people of Mastodon!

I'm going to be migrating this instance to a new dedicated server tomorrow at 11 AM (Central Time) so uh, there's gonna be some downtime 😄

@kylejj thank you for your donation to PTIO btw, every time I visit our page this cracks me up lmao

well I made an account because it seems like an interesting concept (and also to shill my blog posts) so if anyone also has one feel free to subscribe 😜

https://www.minds.com/jonaharagon/

Does anyone use minds.com? Thoughts? (Just found out about it, know nothing)

Looking for volunteers who would be interested in translating privacytools.io to any variety of different languages (via Weblate). If you're interested shoot me a DM :)

A for-profit company just bought the .ORG registry, shortly after ICANN removed price caps on .org domains. So... that’s just fantastic.

If anyone owns a .org domain I’d probably extend that registration out to the max 10 years before those prices jump. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_shambles/

Today's Hacker Noon front page story: Long "Unbiased" VPN Reviews That Give You The Short End of the Stick [Deep Dive] https://hackernoon.com/be-wary-of-vpn-reviewers-lcb26bs

Affiliate marketing schemes are untrustwothy by design. There's no better example of this than VPN "review" sites. https://blog.privacytools.io/the-trouble-with-vpn-and-privacy-reviews/