Changes to Lemmy/PieFed to adjust to living under fascism
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Hellooooo? Fascists? Are you on Lemmy?
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Yeah, I don't think I'm on the right part of Lemmy where fascists are engaging. Not that I'm complaining. It just feels like you're living in an igloo complaining that a cactus might grow.
It's not about fascists on the platform but living in a fascist country where posting on a left leaning platform is already suspicious.
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I've been on Lemmy since May. I've never been on 4Chan, but I've heard stories of who 4Chan users are, and what their posts are.
God, I HOPE they aren't way ahead of us.....
I've never been on 4Chan, but I've heard stories of who 4Chan users are, and what their posts are.
If Margaret Mead at her age smoked grass
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Imagine pasting this LLM bullshit unabashedly as if it's something people should sagely nod through recognizing how necessary it is to turn this poor man's reddit into NSA internal messaging forum. "Better opsec around instance owners", did you even read that before pasting? Who are you writing that for, instance owners' handlers?
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thanks for the rec
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Lemmy is a public forum, if you want to communicate privately exchange matrix handles and communicate there.
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That is interesting! Thanks for the tip!
Also, it’s their icon a community reference?
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That is interesting! Thanks for the tip!
Also, it’s their icon a community reference?
No idea, never used it, I just happen to know it exists.
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A lock or panick button that immediately wipes everything and makes the logs unusable
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Easy support for canaries and transparency from the admins, like on Peertube where you're incentivised to write something about your newly installed instance, where it's located etc
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Maybe take inspiration from European GDPR, assess which information can be used for what, make it transparent to the user what gets stored where and why...
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I know you're a Piefed developer, so you probably know what's possible and what's not better than me. But honestly, the encryption part makes me think you probably want a new protocol designed with that in mind from the start. In my opinion, it's too destructive for compatibility with other ActivityPub software and instances running older versions of them especially.
Combating spam despite the simplified account creation will probably require the implementation of something like Reddit's karma system. Which isn't a very popular idea I think.
Regarding the ephemeral content.... please don't. It might sound cool on paper, but it just adds FOMO. We shouldn't promote doomscrolling and brainrot with the addition of features which require you to quickly scroll through shit to not miss out on posts that disappear after a timer has passed.
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No. Federation is the wrong decentralization model for anyone worried about malicious state actors. Just like email encryption, it doesn't matter how secure you/your server is, you still need to rely on the weakest link on the chain and that is simply unacceptable.
If you want to have secure social media, we need to move away from Federation and we will have to build a fully distributed network where data only lives at the edge nodes and participants can only communicate after exchanging their own personal keys.
Anything else is just infosec cosplaying.
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And pretty much dead, I was following this project but they stopped development in 2020.
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No. Federation is the wrong decentralization model for anyone worried about malicious state actors. Just like email encryption, it doesn't matter how secure you/your server is, you still need to rely on the weakest link on the chain and that is simply unacceptable.
If you want to have secure social media, we need to move away from Federation and we will have to build a fully distributed network where data only lives at the edge nodes and participants can only communicate after exchanging their own personal keys.
Anything else is just infosec cosplaying.
So you're saying we should use Nostr
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But do users get fed?
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Reddit blocks VPNs unless you're already logged on
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So you're saying we should use Nostr
No. Nostr is even worse because it ties your identity to your encryption keys.
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No. Federation is the wrong decentralization model for anyone worried about malicious state actors. Just like email encryption, it doesn't matter how secure you/your server is, you still need to rely on the weakest link on the chain and that is simply unacceptable.
If you want to have secure social media, we need to move away from Federation and we will have to build a fully distributed network where data only lives at the edge nodes and participants can only communicate after exchanging their own personal keys.
Anything else is just infosec cosplaying.
Secure Scuttlebutt is the way
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So something I want to point out: plain text encryption exists. Cyphers and the like. You could have your instance use all the standard stuff but with a really hard cypher, and it would work everywhere. Then you just need a front end to read it… but then the cops could read it… oh public encryption makes no sense.
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OUR NEW AUTHORITARIAN OVERLORDS ARE PERFECT IN EVERY WAY
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No. Federation is the wrong decentralization model for anyone worried about malicious state actors. Just like email encryption, it doesn't matter how secure you/your server is, you still need to rely on the weakest link on the chain and that is simply unacceptable.
If you want to have secure social media, we need to move away from Federation and we will have to build a fully distributed network where data only lives at the edge nodes and participants can only communicate after exchanging their own personal keys.
Anything else is just infosec cosplaying.
Yup. Really don't get the constant drumming of "I want to use someone else's website or server while pretending it's a secure platform". Peer-to-peer coms have been around for literal generations now. If you actually care about privacy, e2ee p2p is what you do.
Security runs opposite to convenience.
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Wait I thought we all use disposable emails. Is there some rule against it oops
