@NullNowhere I would only use ai for help or to see how things would play out as I don't have much friends anyway! And plus I wouldn't rlly publish what I made with ai without heavy tweaks, and flavor of my personality in it! And best part? No one would read what I made with ai as its not gonna get published anywhere and its only for me to read.

@Hydrangea@sakurajima.moe if you posted something here I would probably browse through it. I browse through most systems or writing people post just because I am curious and like to see what people are doing.

I hope you don’t feel discouraged from showing your creative endeavors. There are lots of nice people on the fediverse. I personally believe that creative endeavors, and the ability to share it are fundamental things to being happier.

@NullNowhere tysm

@NullNowhere I have a blog here btw this one is for me tryna educate my age group abt basic tech stuff https://tech-for-teens67.blogspot.com/?m=1 I tried my best lol. U can tell I typed all of that.

(Bro I hate that I have hearing problems)

@Hydrangea@sakurajima.moe I did take a look!

A basic notion I feel like would be useful to talk about is how links work, and how many times the links people carelessly share (with utm_source and other query parameters) are used to create webs of association to learn things about you even when you guard your privacy well.

You may also talk about threat modeling in privacy. It's kinda important to understand who the actors are, what they're doing with your information, and what the worst case scenario is for you. I think most people just see these services as faceless and have never really thought about where it can lead in ~5 years.

I hope you keep writing!

@NullNowhere tysm and yeah! For your 1st idea I went "Huh? Oh didn't know that- OH. Thats why some links are so damn long" Yeah! Threat modeling too!

@NullNowhere I would defo have folks use clear urls extension or smth!

@NullNowhere for the alternatives section in the blog post, would telegram be an okay addition? Imo it wouldn't...unless ur 16 and over cuz uh telegram

@NullNowhere tbh telegram I wouldn't add cuz signal is there in the list

@Hydrangea@sakurajima.moe Telegram has various murky ties to the Russian state. I definitely would not settle on it for privacy / security concerns.

@NullNowhere OOP.

@NullNowhere I have
Others:
Biar, Signal etc.
As alternatives aside from matrix.
Anything else? Ye I did metion fedi! I think that's pretty much it, no way much teens would use Xmpp anyway.

@Hydrangea@sakurajima.moe I am sure there are others but I don’t have much reason to explore.

Regarding Fedi, this is where it’s important to model. Fedi isn’t a part of the advertising world, but also, one of the weaknesses of the protocol is that private messages are not end-to-end encrypted, meaning admins and possibly mods (not sure how this is implemented on Mastodon etc) could find your messages. So if I had something truly sensitive to say, I probably would not say it over Fedi.

@NullNowhere btw updated the blog post to fix the not correct info and clearly sate what ya said and what I meant to list fedi for!

@NullNowhere I also listed threat modeling too! I used snoopy parents as an example. I hope that uh works

@NullNowhere btw have u used signal for long term? I wanna...but I gots nobody to use it with.

@Hydrangea@sakurajima.moe I have. It’s hard to get people to use something else but I generally tell them that I will only have certain conversations in certain environments and they can move the conversation over or not talk. You decide your own boundaries.

That and I think it’s really good to encourage having several ways of communicating with people on several platforms. Resiliency is another important if separate issue. You are not as bound to Discord if you have another way to contact and organize your friends, for example.