Well, I don’t really see the headline in it, tbh. That is, yeah of course servers can be seized? That’s kinda a given?
It doesn’t really matter what software they run in regards to whether they can be seized or not.
Did you read the article? Its not just about hardware being taken and there’s things that can be done to even minimize that issue.
I don’t know who expected the fediverse to be the most secure and private network of the world.
It’s a “independent” and open source social media platform. A better place to be than corporate social media. That’s it.
I wouldn’t even be surprised if it came out the FBI was hosting fediverse servers aimed at some crime. Like a instance dedicated to digital piracy.
Lemmy.cp they have done stings like that
There’s some fediverse that we can call it “the most secure and private” network. Not all of them, but yes… the fallacy of pop culture understanding the fediverse hype by many people is too much. I agree…
I think the we should use fediverse with the expectations we had using the internet of old: Don’t post anything you want to keep secret, and anything you put online is potentially permanent.
I was always a little skeevy towards Facebook and other major social media sites when everyone was encouraged to use real names, post personal details, and share real photos of themselves and friends. Hell I still don’t get how people here share everything from faces to nudes and not expect their privacy to be compromised.
An entire generation has grown up not expecting privacy. It’s their normal.
Big tech companies’ wet dream
For some reason my entire account is being mass downvoted, anyone else have this happen before?
Why do people trust their info with a person that lives who knows where more than with a company established somewhere that can be verified and that actually has to follow laws? 🤔
A correction/clarification for those people who are trying to find freedom of speech on Fediverse,
as Nate says, nothing on the Fediverse is private.
Because everything is transparent, and they all link to your personal email address.Freedom of speech on Fediverse is still limted cuz it is not private, and still has moderator.
Remember, Freedom can’t exist without Privacy.
No space on the internet was ever private. But it is even less private with Lemmy as it stands because even your voting history can be determined by others running their own instance.
I mean, that depends on how you categorize privacy rights. If I am wrong, feel free to correct me.
From my understanding, 100% private means secret, things that are only known by yourself.But what if we want to release some of them to the world but make sure we don’t expose our identity?
To me, that somehow falls under the category of privacy rights as well.And you know what? Using a decentralized social platform like WireMin gives you the private space you are talking about.
It has DM, Chat space, Feed for blog post (everything is E2EE, so pretty private for me)
Some spaces approach like 99% private. Tails + encryption for example. Still can’t ensure against governments monitoring tor exit nodes but other than that you’re pretty well golden.
Mastodon’t
Encrypted file systems requiring secrets at mount time can make seizing physical servers harder. It’s more difficult with the cloud hosters, since these likely have an API for law enforcement.
