Privacy is not the opposite of community. It is the architecture that makes community possible.
People need withdrawal, quiet, and protected intimacy to take part in shared life without being consumed by it. In software, every product decides who can see, reach, interrupt, index, notify, or invite before the user has a chance to say what they want. That makes the threshold the real design question.
Where do the products you use draw that line? Tell us in the comments.
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