Yeah, I don’t post private shit on forums, I discuss things publically so I can collectively have a conversation with countless other people.

If you want to have a private personal conversation sure use a private chat room, but I need that public space to discuss and learn, active publically accessible forums / lemmy / other equivalent communities are goldmines of information that benefits all.

That’s why I specifically wrote “completely public” not “private”.

I think most people know that a discord server with a few hundred or thousand members can hardly be considered private. But I can imagine that there are people who don’t want to put it directly online for everybody to find on Google. Not that I like that.