This may look like a weird question btw.

I see constantly people here worried about digital security, I see people using Tor, deleting social networks, and just sharing the different levels of security that they use.

So I was wondering, how safe is Lemmy? Sure it doesnt collect info like Twitter and Meta does, but that doesnt mean its 100% safe. So what are the main problems we can have here? Is there anything the 3 letter agencies could exploit? Is there any preventive measures users could take?

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    until it is not a peer2peer driven server network of individual server nodes mirroring each other in symphony and ratchet encrypting the content on a blockchain via it’s own encryption certificate and protocol (which is where you will find the lawful hurdles…) which would have to be handed out initially on SD cards in order to be mirrored on the server hardware… it won’t and can’t ever be safe from the main issues. the privatized 5eyes security centers we call “the deep state”

    until a certain starting majority of users have not been PERSONALLY handed keys &preset server images early in the distribution & start of a given platform, tampering is always a problem.

    back 2 years ago, everyone interested could have bought a raspberry for cheap, put a sd card with said server node into it and from there on a decent degree of security could have been provided. i saw people suggesting different methods, but the modern left is too outrage driven and topical to think in long term strategic goals it seems.

    the other thing is user acquisition and vetting. you can’t just allow anyone, you need a database of recommendations and a relationship management system (potentially observing other platforms and training an AI network to compare account behaviours&language patterns) to find the snitches, moles & traitors coming from other platforms and trying to infiltrate, doxx, harrass, e.t.c.