Today, for the first time on Lemmy, I received a message about posting being forbidden from VPNs.

  • ozoned@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    Yes, when you ban. You can see IP addresses coming through, but the fediverse folks aren’t leveraging your IP for any kind of advantage. No tracking for ads or things. So what security precautions are we taking for Fediverse servers? I peraonnaly do the feel the need, but I’m sure there at valid reasons to do it. But if it’s just tracking and ads, they don’t exist here really.

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      1 day ago

      Honestly, if security is a main concern for anyone here, you should run your own. Anyone can run any of this. Follow what you want, then all connections to Lemmy.world come from your server you control that you connect to. I’m on piefed.social, but I’m planning on running my own eventually.

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        1 day ago

        The gamble of the fediverse is that you’re outside the realm of the blatantly bad actors like the Zucks and Muskerburgs, but you’re also off the edge of the map. No reason to believe that there be no dragons here. Anyone can run one, which includes bad actors. I wouldn’t be implicitly trusting that the hundreds of individual volunteers that keep the fediverse afloat all have good intentions. cough.ml serverscough

        • v_krishna@lemmy.ml
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          24 hours ago

          Your coughing might have caused you to not hear that those ml server folks literally wrote the software you are using…

          • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
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            16 hours ago

            the software is open source. we can verify it doesn’t do anything bad. the server is what you cannot trust.