Might be worth remembering here that Lemmy instances, including .world are hosted by regular people. Not massive multinational companies worth billions who can engage the best legal talent around.

If Hollywood comes after a Lemmy instance, Holywood have a huge legal team and endless money. The Lemmy instance has some guy. They could quite literally destroy a persons life. With that in mind, I don’t blame any instance owners for erring on the side of taking a stance that won’t put them in the legal firing line.

Also, installation instructions that don’t assume you’re already an expert.

Are all their apps/backend open source? They have a github repo but it’s not very clear what’s open source or if its partial open source or what. I think it’s just their mail app and windows desktop app.

If that is this case, they’re asking their users to have a lot of trust in them.

I self host Ampache and have Sublime Music on my desktop and Substreamer on my Android device.

That was a bit halfhearted. You didn’t use the phrase ‘hive mind’ or anything.

OK, so you can login anonymously. Great.

The real question is; why would you want to, given that the dead bird site is a cesspool of extreme rightwing awfulness? What are you hoping to learn or take from being on there?

A few months ago. They said that hosting companies and other providers were refusing to work with them if they continued with it as a feature.

It’s just too easy to abuse by bad people using it to host very questionable content. Lots of people then moved to ivpn and then they removed it too, for the same reasons.

100% with AdBlock and LocalCDN on LibreWolf.

I did once, but after the crypto thing, then the trying to sell rights to other people’s content, then finding out how awful Eich is, it’s a ‘no’.

That’s an absolute gut punch :(

I had no idea he was even ill. Fuck. On the off-chance a family member or friend stumbles across this thread, I’m very sorry for your loss.

Bathroom or Black Lodge?

Their apps are E2EE.

Gimmie some sugar baby.

Either that or an app that has been vetted by government stooges and given the thumbs up as its trivial for others to access the content on.

All the Apple users I know routinely use iMessage and WhatsApp.

I’m pretty sure that’s the end-game, yes. At least as far as communication based tools go, which would include chat apps, VPN’s, cloud storage etc etc. The ruling classes in the UK are very nanny-state and genuinely believe that a persons right to privacy comes a distant second to being able to rule over us and control us more effectively.

The issue for non-UK countries is that when world governments see that its possible to pass these sort of laws, they’ll be keen to do the same. And most people are not tech-savvy, they’ll have no real idea why it’s important or invasive. It’s difficult enough to get people to switch to Signal. Imagine trying to explain why breaking encryption is a bad thing for them.

Which would be fine except Starmer approves of all the things contained in the various bits of legislation.

Knowing this gvmt, they’ll try and prevent access at the ISP level. They’ve already started making noises about tackling ‘the menace of VPN’s’.

Signal have already said they will withdraw completely from the UK, as have WhatsApp, Session and a few others.

I think you underestimate the deep stupidity and tech-ignorance of our politicians, coupled with their burning desire to know everything that we do. This is a set of people who think hidden == illegal.