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Does your family is also against your privacy means? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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As weird as the title sounds, my family really dislikes me using Tuta and not Gmail. Is your family also like this?

"Come on, Sarah, can't you just be normal and use Gmail like everyone?"

my mom, scolding me.

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

I'll expand this question to my entire social circle.

I haven't found that anybody cares about my email provider. It doesn't affect them because email is federated. Nobody has ever asked me why I'm mailing them from a domain I own rather than a service provider they've heard of.

Where I do run into a lot of resistance is trying to get people to use Signal. Some people seem to find the concept of having multiple messaging apps objectionable, which has never made any sense to me as long as they have basic computer skills. On occasion, I'm on the other side of that conversation when I'm unwilling to use Facebook Messenger for reasons that should be obvious to anyone in this community.