We’re in an exciting time for users who want to take back control from major platforms like Twitter and Facebook. However, this new environment comes with challenges and risks for user privacy, so we need to get it right and make sure networks like the Fediverse and Bluesky are mindful of past...

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  • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]M
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    11 months ago

    IMO, what happened to Kolektiva is a freak occurrence. The vast majority of Fediverse instances are run on 'cloud' infrastructure. The feds can easily issue a subpoena to the ISPs to collect images of the servers without the administrators even knowing. Still, in light of the Kolektiva incident, I took the steps to ensure all backups leaving matapacos.dog leave in an encrypted state, and can only be decrypted with a physical smartcard (requires PIN entry, and the card self-deletes after 5 attempts).

    Implementing E2E encryption would be a huge benefit, but E2E encryption in a federated environment with dozens of unique platforms communicating with one another is a challenging problem to solve. I think Matrix is working on something like this (to supercede Olm/megOlm), but even on Matrix, very few 3rd party clients are compatible with their bespoke megolm cyptographic protocol.

    In the meantime, learn how to use GPG. milhouse