If Lemmy became popular, what would prevent any three-letter agency from opening a server to get all the user data? (lemy.lol)

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[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

There are implications to the protocol though, for example you and I can communicate despite being registered to different parts of the fediverse. The lack of any safeguards against a group being unruly in ways that affect the rest of the fediverse (Lemmygrad comes to mind) seems like something that would backfire, kind of like if I was queen of a territory but then joined the US as a state and then proceeded to send people to the three branches of government just to troll the system. But there are safeguards against that, just not on Lemmy.

[-] PatMustard@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago

The safeguard is defederating from that rogue instance

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