You don't have to, Discord doesn't have end-to-end encryption at all. It's as secure as an IRC channel on a public network. While good IRC networks are moderated and everyone understands that their chats are logged, Discord has been able to sell its software to millions of users who have no digital consciousness to realize that none of their messages are private. Discord has ingrained itself into the digital psyche of society perfectly even though it is no less hazardous than any PRISM/Silicon Valley product.

I've had people tell me they feel secure using Discord because there's millions of people using it and they are more secure "in the pack." Like no, you're not more powerful than a HashMap, the entire fucking IT industry is built on chewing data.

Good friends don't let their friends use Discord. Matrix (though it used to be funded by an Israeli tech firm and generates a ton of metadata) in comparison is leagues better in basic decorum (no more gamer slop) + actually being a federated platform.

If you want something that actually checks the boxes for security than you can look at GNU Jami.

Do you really think these little "codes" offer any real deniability? Like a dealer would have to be using the same codes for everyone otherwise there would be no way for them to keep track. So their communications if compromised would be easy enough to decypher. I guess it depends on the local jurisprudence but I feel like after many years of cat n mouse this one is probably covered most places. The more despised a person already is due to race, class, etc, the moreso that it's the case.

The dealers I had that I trusted the most took the initiative for security rather than letting customers dictate it. First of all, they never did any business at their homes. But for business, they would only go to yours. Only took customers by referral which was done in person with prior agreement and only after you'd been a customer for a while. Never answered an unknown number. If they found out you gave their number to someone, they'd take you off their list. They had a business phone which was separate from their personal phones and changed the number periodically. They kept scheduled hours when they'd answer the phone, shared between the 3 of them, and turned it off the rest of the time. And they instructed their customers how to talk on the phone, what to say. Nothing about quantities. You invite them over, they already know who you are and where you are, they agree to come and you do all business in person, in your home. No strangers present for the transaction.

Kind of lacked the.... charm of going to the living room where you just show up any time you can hear the music from the street but also you never heard about such n such getting busted. I think if the customer is setting the security protocols you are in trouble because they are probably just humouring you and doing everything sloppy when out of sight. You want to be cagey you gotta find a cagey dealer.

I haven't looked into specific state laws, I just know it's not federally illegal – but considering some states are looking to make mail-order contraceptives illegal, I wouldn't be surprised to see HRT on the chopping block next.

No lmao I may have worded that wrong. I was referring only to a way to get a plug, and implying that if femme hrt became illegal drug dealers would probably push it around just like some do testosterone and PEDs

You do, but if you actually read the research and ask doctors, it's a good last resort alternative. If your options are no estrogen or ethinyl estradiol, ethinyl is the way to go

BC pills should not be confused with pure ethinyl estradiol post menopausal pills

It wasn't as easy to get, less people were using it outside of very serious bodybuilders, and yeah online sourcing has made it even easier.

And yeah, I'd say in addition to the internet in general, around late aughts/early 2010s started a rise in social media and accompanying body dysmophria skyrocketing in men and boys due to it.

This was also followed by a shift in body ideals for men. You can see this reflected in our celebrities; take the physique of an 80s action guy like Jean Claude Van Damme for instance vs Chris Hemsworth's Thor.

It followed that guys wanted to look even beefier with physiques that are largely unattainable through natural means, cue rising anabolic steroid usage.

There's also the rise of things like fitness culture contributing to it and "alpha male" stuff so now every other cis guy is at the TRT clinic for supposed low testosterone levels.

As a bonus it's now less stigmatized than it used to be.

So now there's more people using, more people selling it, and more ways to get it if you can't legally, just a numbers game.