it's also an outlier position fueled by belief, and people tend to self-select to be around others who believe as they do, and punish those who don't.

it's one thing to be concern about privacy, it's another to browbeat anyone who doesn't have a pihole server and selfhosts all their media content as being 'fools'. i don't use linux other than at my job, and according to lemmy techies I'm a heretic.