I’m wondering if I should just delete lemmy to stay under the radar. 🤔 (I’m a US Citizen currently residing in the US, and moving out of the country is not really an option)

I feel so conflicted on this. On one hand, this is kinda like giving in to authoritarianism, but on the other hand, dissenting is kinda dangerous. 😓

  • SolOrion
    5·
    1 天前

    By nature, the fediverse is hard to tie back to individuals… But if they’re looking for you individually, they can find you

    Yeah. Bonus points if your instance isn’t hosted in the US. I’m pretty sure mine is hosted in Canada, and with the way it’s going currently in a year or two Canada wouldn’t be willing to piss on the US government if it was on fire much less hand over a server full of IP addresses.

      • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
        2·
        17 小时前

        But again, hacking is a tool when they want to go after something in particular - a single lemmy server is minuscule. Even the full scale of everyone on lemmy is a very small target… They might go after it if they have specific reason to, but they’re unlikely to do so when there’s plenty of work to be done on bigger platforms

      • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        1 天前

        indeed, but so is Tor. not a perfect solution, but its there and it works well for “casual interactions”.