There’s also the other part of this concerning VPNs. While many are using VPNs purely to access garbage social media, using (good) VPNs can help protect your privacy. So I would argue that the fediverse should embrace and support VPNs. It’s always possible that a data center where an instance is hosted gets raided and IP addresses taken and used against users.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

Funnily enough the largest lemmy instance don't allow you to use their platform with VPN enabled, unless they've changed policy in last 6 months

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I really should start promoting my FOSS decentralised sharing protocol & implementation. You could build a twitter or facebook on top of it for example.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're talking about mastodon and lemmy, right?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No it's a decentralised secure takedown safe sharing protocol. So that, for example, you can publish things your government does not like.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How do mastodon and lemmy not solve that?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

You can't share any kind of data there.