So with the revelation that the owner of a big Fedi server is a target of a lawsuit, and that if things go badly the server may find itself seized—

I realize that that users on that instance follow users on my instance, so there are going to be semiprivate posts of mine that may fall into the hands of people—law enforcement, data brokers—who are not beholden to any Fedi Admin Code of Honour.

(I already do not post about my crimes on Fedi, if I were the kind to do crimes.)

Server seizure is just not a part of the ActivityPub threat model. What if it was? How would it change the protocol to protect data at rest, or perhaps not even keep it at rest on a server but defer to the originating server?

End-to-end encryption [user-to-user, not server-to-server] could be part of the answer, but it need not be the whole answer.

I welcome considered thoughts, so any response I see within an hour of my posting this will be ignored.

@futzle Do you have a link to what's going on? I feel like I missed something big.
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Time to back up, export, and leave if you're on mstdn.ca https://ottawa.place/@stephanie/116267088513251309 If you can't see the above post, here's the CBC article about the person who owns and runs the server. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/inglewood-league-lawsuit-missing-funds-9.7136933 Migration tips: https://zeroes.ca/@StaceyCornelius/115967726861839689 Edit: These are allegations and there's a state of the instance coming up. I'd err on the side of caution and migrate early, or at least back everything up, because losing an account here kind of sucks.

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