> If you're staying on Discord, enjoy the surveillance. For the rest of us: it's time to learn how to self-host.

Hmmm. I feel like self-hosting is the FASTEST way to lose your anonymity. Your self hosted service is MUCH more easily tied to your identity than some third party like discord.

Just imagine you set up a self-hosted forum where you want to discuss something you want to keep private, but the government is very interested and wants to know who you are talking to.

Well, now they know any IP address connecting to your forum is a person of interest. They don't need to decrypt anything to know you are talking to each other.

By using something unique, you are going to make yourself uniquely identifiable.