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A curated list of privacy and security-focused software and services - Lissy93 (github.com)

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[–] Skimmer@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

This list has so many weird and obsolete recommendations, looks like its being refined and improved according to this, so until that's finished, I'd take it with a heavy grain of salt.

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is sadly the way of all "awesome" lists. They start of as a curated list of awesome resources, but once they get popular they just get overrun with all & sundry so they're just lists of not-necessarily-awesome things.

It's interesting to see that issue though, at least someone has acknowledged the problem in this case, but I'm not sure how productive an issue like that can be? It does have some specifics but it also kinda just says "remove things which are not awesome and add things which are awesome". Some privacy things are so divisive.

[–] trimmerfrost@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe categorise popular and less popular ones

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

... but projects being popular is not an indicator of how awesome they are.