Are there any communities about digital minimalism, dumbphones etc?

Seeing as the community rules also permit asking for community recs... I have a dumbphone that I've owned for a while and I'm impressed by all the edge cases its software actually handles. I'd like to describe my findings somewhere, but I couldn't find a fitting community. There's no dumbphone or digital minimalism community, no?

There's Compact Phones but they're more about small smartphones. I don't think they'd appreciate my post about a small phone that's also trash when compared to a smartphone

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Libb@piefed.social · 18 pts · 232d

Have you considered !simpleliving@slrpnk.net? It's not very active but I think this is the kind of post that deserve a place there. And that maybe enough to trigger interesting discussions too.

zloubida@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 232d (3 replies)

There's !dumbphones@lemmy.world, but it's not a very active community. !degoogle@lemmy.ml is too restricted in scope maybe (and .ML…) but !technology@lemmy.world, even if wider in scope, may be a good place to share your experience. Wherever you share it, I'd read it with great interest!

Blaze@piefed.zip · 11 pts · 232d

!degoogle@lemmy.ca

squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi · 4 pts · 232d (1 reply)

There's !dumbphones@lemmy.world, but it's not a very active community.

Posting on the Fediverse via SMS, when?

zloubida@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 232d
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GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 232d (2 replies)

This might be of interest to some of the privacy communities. If you think there's overlap, feel free to post in one of the larger ones.

wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 232d (1 reply)

"Dumbphones" are not inherently superior from a privacy perspective if they connect to cell towers. Standard calls and SMS are wide open to eavesdropping.

GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 231d

No, they're not, and I didn't say they were. But there are a lot of people that only let a tower touch a dumbphone and keep a wifi only smartphone that is more secure, so the venn diagram does have some overlap.

msokiovt@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 232d

There's this one, which I don't think is that active, which is !right_to_unplug@sopuli.xyz

unknowingvoid@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 70d
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 1 pts · 232d

Oh more communities to subscribe to.