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Changes to Lemmy/PieFed to adjust to living under fascism (piefed.social)

submitted 13 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What do we need to change about how we operate, now that the political environment is darkening?

The overall goals would be to safeguard user identities, ensure communication privacy, and protect against censorship and state surveillance.

User Anonymity and Privacy

End-to-end encryption: Encrypt all user communications, private messages, and sensitive data
Anonymous accounts: Allow users to create accounts without requiring personally identifiable information (PII), such as email or phone numbers. How can we balance this with the need to combat spam?
Tor and VPN Integration: Ensure compatibility with privacy tools like Tor, and provide guidance on using VPNs.

Data Storage

Remove or minimize data collection, including IP addresses, geolocation, and device information. No web server logs.
Ephemeral content: auto-deleting posts, messages, etc after a set period.
Instance chooser that flags which instances are in unsafe countries.
Defederate from instances in unsafe countries?

Communities

Private communities - currently all are public
Communities where every post is encrypted
Approval process to join some communities
Better opsec around instance owners, admins and moderators

What else?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

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.