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  • This is true for practically every online service ever.

    Sorry i have to correct this statement. Unless all encryption can be broken one day (which is a different discussion), end-to-end encryption can be seen as private … if both parties can trust each other to keep it so.
    One can see if a service/app does e2ee if they (best) ask you to enter your public key (and only that) which will be shared to others to enable them to encrypt messages to you (such PMs can only get decrypted with your private key which is stored nowhere but on your own devices), and verify signatures done using your privkey. In the second-best case, an application will generate a key pair on your device and instruct you to store away the private key it just generated somewhere safe and protected by a long passphrase because if you lose it your PMs can not be recovered.

    Interestingly, the ActivityPub protocol and IIRC also the Lemmy database have a “public key” field which could be used for e2ee purposes but the functionality is just not implemented.














  • ad 1. You seem to not have paid much attention to the fact that part of the audience you are talking to is leaving another company’s platform because of what is now called “enshittification”. Part of that includes targeted advertising. Why would a cooperative that is driven by such an interest trust your agency?
    ad 2. Hope so that you are paying your contractors! ;-)
    ad 3. I’ll take it. potentially.
    ad 4. bruh!

    You can Relax knowing that we are taking care for you of install, configuration, encryption, backups, software updates, os upgrades, live monitoring, alerts, live migrations without downtime …

    I can also relax as the NSA and certainly others too, keep backups of all my tracking.


  • While i can see a benefit in such a service … anyway, one (and a half) questions out of principle:

    Are you actively participating in Lemmy or the “Fediverse” at large, meaning that you’d have a vital interest in the development of collectively-operated social networks?
    Or is it more so that you jumped on the opportunity to perhaps be the first company to put an advertisement in people’s feeds, in order to make a buseness?

    … I may add, this is advertising a service which potentially would allow for customer lock-in, and at the same time it would allow the service provider to potentially gain power over parts of the network. Lemmy instance admins would in essence hand their keys and trustworthyness to a third party. That is concerning.

    And … this is calling for a feature request: advertisement flag, including an ignore option in user settings.