Thanks for the welcome! I am from Sask originally, but currently residing in STILL FLIPPING SNOWY Nunavut!

No, I'm not bitter. Not at all. Nope. Too cold to be bitter.

Idk about anyone else's more liberal use of personal information, but I know for me I stopped caring once it became clear that online privacy is an illusion. Yeah, I could go out of my way to be super private and not reveal anything, but all it takes is someone better at snooping than I am at being private to reveal me. Not that anyone has a reason to in the first place, but I just don't see the point in hiding behind anything more than the carnival masks we are all wearing.

Technically that's how I found this site, as I came across these "Lemmy" sites and had to google wtf they were, which lead to a page of different Lemmy sites, this one being one of the top ones.