If you really want your life back just turn the internet off. Leave your phone at home.
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2026
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Shouldn't you just, you know, meet your friend as much as possible physically instead of creating app that no one will bother to use thus making communication hard?
We are already flooded with bad coders who went to bootcamps because money. We need way less coders. Do something useful that you enjoy instead.
And no, you won't make your own tools, because privacy and the underlying cryptography is fucking hard.
I disagree.
No matter how many coders exist, you always need to pay attention to quality. If there are lots of coders out there, finding a few good ones shouldn’t be hard.
Inexperienced coders can still contribute even if they don’t write anything big. FOSS needs all kinds of contributions.
As someone who has very little experience with coding, where would you recommend I start?
As someone who has a fair bit of experience with coding and with charlatans, don't trust the one in the OP. They just joined Lemmy today, and they've been spreading unfounded conspiracist FUD. Learn IT stuff first and foremost if you value your privacy; the OP has no fucking idea what they're talking about and gives zero practical examples to illustrate their point. Programming knowledge has rarely if ever been anything more than a tangential aid in maintaining my privacy.
By all means, learn how to program; it's a great skill. Just don't learn it because some stranger on the Internet tells you "I promise bro it'll be the privacy apocalypse if you don't know how to code in, like, the coming months(TM) for some reason." The OP doesn't even indicate they know how to code, not that it'd make much of a difference.
(Also, this isn't a shower thought; this is the OP soapboxing.)
Edit: Just to steelman the OP and assume their wholly unfounded and obviously bullshit claim of "you will not be able to use most popular communication platforms in the coming months" (which ones, fuckass?): amateur programming knowledge does not help with that, and it shows they know absolute jack shit about infosec. If you're an amateur programmer building your own communication platform for the sake of privacy, you're about to be fucked forwards and backwards until the friction from the fucking vaporizes you to cinders. You need real knowledge of mathematical fields like cryptography, not just "haha while(1) go brrrrrrr", to build a messenger secure from the kinds of threat actors the OP vaguely alludes to.