Mastodon server admins, take note: Why Kolektiva.social Is a Cautionary Tale for Activists Using Mastodon - FOSS Force https://fossforce.com/2023/07/why-kolektiva-social-is-a-cautionary-tale-for-activists-using-mastodon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-kolektiva-social-is-a-cautionary-tale-for-activists-using-mastodon
Why Kolektiva.social Is a Cautionary Tale for Activists Using Mastodon - FOSS Force
A Mastodon server that focuses on left-leaning political activists, recently had an unencrypted copy of its database confiscated by the FBI.Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
Paolo Vecchi
in reply to Christine Hall • • •If #Mastodon messages were E2EE it would have made things a bit more difficult but should it really be E2EE?
Is a social network a platform where people would expect their messages to be E2EE?
Maybe we should help people in understanding the clear distinction between a platform that is used to exchange public messages and other tools that are made on purpose to make communication reasonably secure? (depending on your threat model)
Dis
in reply to Paolo Vecchi • • •FYI #matrix / #synapse already does #selfhosted #federated #e2ee chats. If masto is fake-twatter and pixelfed is fake-insta, matrix is fake discord. (With real security, and no higher barrier to entry - or hosting - than masto.)
That said, I am about to tear my instance down for unrelated reasons (mostly I don't need "fake discord" as much as I need the headroom and disk space back in my cluster)
Paolo Vecchi
in reply to Dis • • •It would be great if each one of us could have control on their own secure tools in an easy way but we are not there yet.
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