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  • sammydee@readit.buzztoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldVPS and piracy
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    1 year ago

    Given that the Fediverse is wide open, unencrypted, and your instance owner is no more immune to getting a subpoena from law enforcement than anyone else … one might think twice about asking questions of the form “if I commit a crime can they find me” here. Even if your VPS can’t detect it, you just left a paper trail here by asking how to commit a crime. :) Bad plan.

    Your Fediverse instance owner might consider deleting your post and perhaps your account to keep them from being the subject of such a subpoena in the future.




  • Nailed it.

    Then there’s the absolutely abysmal UX of following someone who exists on another Mastodon instance when you’re linked to their profile, which involves the non-obvious steps of manually copying and pasting a URL into a search box on your home instance, waiting for a connection to be made, then following them, at which point you won’t see any of their old posts, just their new ones. Compare and contrast with Twitter’s handling, which is where you search for a username and can see all their posts and can follow them without having to manually copy and paste a single damn thing.