In a way this does make me slightpy concerned about Lemmy servers, Reddit has a team of lawyers and tonnes of funds behind it to fight pointless demands like these
A lot of server owners won’t and will be much easier to coax into giving up information about it’s users
The thing is, chasing individual instances is a game of whack-a-mole, with a lot of downside and not a lot of upside. Established companies follow laws and regulations because they are easy targets, with local assets, offices, and public figures that are worth serving/seizing and can be compelled to comply to court orders. How TF you going to enforce a court order in a country that doesn’t recognize your jurisdiction or laws?
The other thing thing is, if you run an instance with moderation rules that skirt the law, you are incentivised not to log personal information and disseminate it because a) that makes you a target, and b) you’ll get called out by your own users for logging and leaking IPs, and people will just move to a different server.
It seems pretty obvious to me that you should assume at all times when you are online that you are basically in a public space, like in a public cafe: People can see you, even if the fact that they are not paying close attention to you creates the illusion of privacy. If you start doing something to stand out, people will start to pay attention to you, and it’s all visible to see unless you actively take precautions to hide your identity. That starts–but doesn’t end–with not browsing piracy on main.
I thought this instance was hosted in Germany. If this is the case, we can’t host files but we should be able to still link to them, correct? In this case, Lemmy should be safe as long as we aren’t uploading files ourselves and hosting them.
That’s it guys, everyone start using iVPN, and Mullvad. 🤣
Both IVPN and Mullvad have just removed port forwarding. I hear the options now are proton (which I hear may not have port forwarding on linux yet, but say they will) and AirVPN.
Port forwarding can be abused and also, exploited. I believe this was smart for many reasons, just get a secondary cheap VPN like IPVanish, NordVPN, VyprVPN, CyberGhost, any of those for DOWNLOADING would be sufficient enough. I would use only Mullvad or iVPN for anything I’d be taking very seriously however.
I agree, though this is better for over night downloads, (sometimes they can fail overnight sadly), but I would always recommend using that combo for downloading small files under 100MB that contain sensitive information or require strong security protocols.
While it can be abused, it can also not be abused, surprisingly enough. I don’t want a secondary cheap vpn for DOWNLOADING, I happen to SEED, you leech, and also use slsk which means I now can’t connect to anyone who also can’t forward their ports because they also use one of your cheap VPNs with no port forwarding for DOWNLOADING.
You are condescending, have added no new info, and you’re clearly just a leech, I’m pretty done with this conversation, sorry “pal.”
Wah, wah, wah. Some random guy on the internet with an opinion that differs from my own has voiced it on a federated social media platform!
Get a seed box and stop your little childish bitch-like behavior. Mr. “I’m a Seeder” 🤣🤣
I can see you don’t take your OPSEC very seriously then by not properly knowing and learning the facts about services like port forwarding and uPnP which auto forwards ports for example. Very dangerous shit if you don’t know what you’re doing and that’s just how it is man. Mullvad has been around since 2009, I think they know EXACTLY HOW to protect themselves and their users based on what I have seen so far in the judicial system.
Haha, good luck dude, and thank you for the laugh!
Lmao you’re in shambles my guy, why do you quote everything? Force of habit, or a severe misunderstanding of the English language? Don’t leaveeeee, you really brighten up my day sunshine 🤣🤣🤣
In a way this does make me slightpy concerned about Lemmy servers, Reddit has a team of lawyers and tonnes of funds behind it to fight pointless demands like these
A lot of server owners won’t and will be much easier to coax into giving up information about it’s users
The thing is, chasing individual instances is a game of whack-a-mole, with a lot of downside and not a lot of upside. Established companies follow laws and regulations because they are easy targets, with local assets, offices, and public figures that are worth serving/seizing and can be compelled to comply to court orders. How TF you going to enforce a court order in a country that doesn’t recognize your jurisdiction or laws?
The other thing thing is, if you run an instance with moderation rules that skirt the law, you are incentivised not to log personal information and disseminate it because a) that makes you a target, and b) you’ll get called out by your own users for logging and leaking IPs, and people will just move to a different server.
It seems pretty obvious to me that you should assume at all times when you are online that you are basically in a public space, like in a public cafe: People can see you, even if the fact that they are not paying close attention to you creates the illusion of privacy. If you start doing something to stand out, people will start to pay attention to you, and it’s all visible to see unless you actively take precautions to hide your identity. That starts–but doesn’t end–with not browsing piracy on main.
I thought this instance was hosted in Germany. If this is the case, we can’t host files but we should be able to still link to them, correct? In this case, Lemmy should be safe as long as we aren’t uploading files ourselves and hosting them.
That’s it guys, everyone start using iVPN, and Mullvad. 🤣
Both IVPN and Mullvad have just removed port forwarding. I hear the options now are proton (which I hear may not have port forwarding on linux yet, but say they will) and AirVPN.
Port forwarding can be abused and also, exploited. I believe this was smart for many reasons, just get a secondary cheap VPN like IPVanish, NordVPN, VyprVPN, CyberGhost, any of those for DOWNLOADING would be sufficient enough. I would use only Mullvad or iVPN for anything I’d be taking very seriously however.
Alternatively, run TOR and a VPN while downloading. The speed will suck, but you should be way harder to track
I agree, though this is better for over night downloads, (sometimes they can fail overnight sadly), but I would always recommend using that combo for downloading small files under 100MB that contain sensitive information or require strong security protocols.
While it can be abused, it can also not be abused, surprisingly enough. I don’t want a secondary cheap vpn for DOWNLOADING, I happen to SEED, you leech, and also use slsk which means I now can’t connect to anyone who also can’t forward their ports because they also use one of your cheap VPNs with no port forwarding for DOWNLOADING.
You are condescending, have added no new info, and you’re clearly just a leech, I’m pretty done with this conversation, sorry “pal.”
Wah, wah, wah. Some random guy on the internet with an opinion that differs from my own has voiced it on a federated social media platform!
Get a seed box and stop your little childish bitch-like behavior. Mr. “I’m a Seeder” 🤣🤣
I can see you don’t take your OPSEC very seriously then by not properly knowing and learning the facts about services like port forwarding and uPnP which auto forwards ports for example. Very dangerous shit if you don’t know what you’re doing and that’s just how it is man. Mullvad has been around since 2009, I think they know EXACTLY HOW to protect themselves and their users based on what I have seen so far in the judicial system.
Haha, good luck dude, and thank you for the laugh!
Wah wah wah, I called some guy out for being a leech and he is now mad at me, whatever will I do?!
Go “danger” your own colon, I’m done talking to you.
Lmao you’re in shambles my guy, why do you quote everything? Force of habit, or a severe misunderstanding of the English language? Don’t leaveeeee, you really brighten up my day sunshine 🤣🤣🤣