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Ian Campbell 🏴Jul 24, 2023

Just saw someone advocating progressive movements organize on the Fediverse.

BE VERY VERY CAREFUL ABOUT SAYING STUFF LIKE THIS.

-Most fediverse tie-ins are not architected to protect you. For instance, Mastodon Direct Messages are not encrypted and admins can access them.

-Most instances are hosted by ordinary people who don't have the time, knowledge, or resources to fight subpoenas in either criminal or civil actions.

Meet here. Support each other. Cheer each other on. Show solidarity, and elevate and amplify each other.

Organize in much more restricted environments, like end-to-end encrypted messengers like Signal.

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Spammy Snarker L.J.

@neurovagrant Heck, full corporations have shut down in the face of stuff like federal subpoenas, e.g. encrypted email providers, and the ones currently in business will also either go under or give in (honestly the false sense of security encrypted email providers give users is a whole rant in itself). Only providers in the range of Apple-big have a chance in hell of fighting back, and that's only if they want to--fuck you, Facebook.

Also don't put too much trust in encrypted communication providers, it's contact tracing that gets people even if the actual content of the messages can't be read. Having a single public identity is itself a security risk. Doesn't matter shit that someone's Signal, Telegram, ProtonMail etc. messages are encrypted if they give out the account like candy.