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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] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Wait I thought we use disposable emails. Is there some rule against it oops. And which instance wants a phone number?

The way I see it there are 5 ingredients: VPN, disposable email, doxx aware usage, no phone numbers, random browser fingerprint.

Then from the Lemmy side that’s pretty private. all depends on your vpn and email providers. Choose no logs services from the countries that don’t have relations with the country you are in.

I imagine some Lemmy instances also could have logging off in the countries where it isn’t necessary by law to store such things.

I guess there are those kinda timing attacks that check ISP logs against some user web activity but are they really realiable? In which case though you could have a mode that would make a comment/post after a random delay.