> Can you square that circle for me and explain what you're doing to be an activist while eschewing the social sphere?

I don't eschew the social sphere, but I strongly lack charisma/am socially rather clumsy and rather the kind of person who has difficulties forming friendships, thus I'm not very social.

OK--so how are you, as you define it, an "activist"? Activism, to my mind, requires social interaction and engagement. I'm curious as to what I'm missing.

There's plenty of "activists" trying to develop encrypted messaging systems, blogging about privacy rights etc, and they are not all that social.

Let me help here:

There is a whole lot you can do without one-to-one social face-to-face interaction and engagement.