I know how to deal with doxxing on traditional social media. I either report the comment or delete my comment, and if the platform doesn’t have moderators I trust, then I don’t use it.

But on the fediverse, anyone on any instance can reveal some personal information and it has to be deleted on every instance in order to be cleared for everyone. Any joe shmoe can spin up an instance, post your personal details (or personal details they made up), and bada bing bada boom, your identity is compromised forever.

I don’t trust the admins of sites like Reddit and Facebook very much, but I trust them a lot more than the instance admin of lemmy.eightyeight.nazi, or whatever other instance run by people who want to hurt me for who I am. And what if an admin is just busy and just doesn’t have time to check reports, or it’s an unmoderated instance run by an admin who gave up on Lemmy but didn’t unplug their server?

Do I have to trust every single person on the internet with basic server admin knowledge in order to use the fediverse?

  • 0xtero@kbin.social
    12·
    8 months ago

    Yeah, not much you can do about it apart from the things outlined in the OP.

    A nazi dickhed running pleroma on his rapsberry pie isn’t going to respect federation moderation messages, DMCA or GDPR. You can try to complain to their ISP, but chances that someone is reading the abuse mailbox and acts on it is… slim.

    So act like there’s no privacy at all.

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      There should be a reputation score or something for instances. We all like freedom but there’s also gotta be boundaries and consequences.

      • 0xtero@kbin.social
        3·
        8 months ago

        I think it might have been an idea to make instance federation to default into a whitelist instead of relying on everyone having to blacklist random raspberry pies around the world.

    • HardlightCereal@lemmy.mlOP
      31·
      8 months ago

      So using Lemmy with an established username or any other identifying characteristic is just a giant threat to my personal safety?

      • 0xtero@kbin.social
        71·
        8 months ago

        Yeah, if that kind of thing is part of your threat model.

        The tools to protect users on fedi are a bag of shit (partly due to the federated nature of it all, but also due to the fact that no one really thought about “what to do about abuse”).