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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now is a good time to remind users that you are placing some trust in the instance that you use. Lemmy is not anonymous. It is pseudo-anonymous. Your instance can do pretty much anything with your account up to and including turning your account into a sock puppet, and they know exactly where you're connecting from.

With that said, it's a lot better than most social media today that actively tries to violate your privacy at every turn.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To add to this: some instances require your email address, and others don't.

Obviously there are plenty of other ways you won't be really anonymous, but if it's important to you, one step in mitigating issues is not to have an email associated with your account.

[–] Acheron@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about using something like a protonmail address for all social media email?

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A good strategy, but still less secure by definition than no email at all.

[–] Historical_General@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Iirc proton mail has a backdoor. Though they likely won't be used outside of 'nať-sećurity interests'.

[–] Historical_General@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

Guys, this is fact, also downvotes aren't private.

[–] Nobilmantis@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

Makes me want to screen record DRM protected stuff and redistribute it right now :)

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean you can very much onion route to a regular server, if it allows connections from Tor.

Unfortunately Tor means it's very hard to IP ban abusers, so a lot of services automatically ban common Tor exit nodes.

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is basically true. You need to have certain DNS configurations you cannot afford on Tor hidden services to federate, and while you still could be listening on a Tor hidden service, clearnet servers would still need to reach you to federate.

On top of that, even if you somehow manage to do that, either youre federation trafic goes through Tor (lmao how to DDoS Tor in 1 step), or It doesn't and all servers can see your public IP, which deafeats the purpose.

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] dottedgreenline@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Piracy is part and parcel of the global economic system, and since that system hasn't changed since time immemorial, well it always has been too.

[–] LeHappStick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thank goodness I only openly supported piracy from 2019 to 2023 with 5 different accounts lmao

Dodged a bullet there

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social -4 points 1 year ago

LOL, that's cute. Reddit doesn't even know my real email address.