Valuing a person’s worth as a human by measuring their productivity is genocidal.
Of course you don't value people based on their productivity! That's downright anti-American "from each according to his ability" commie talk! You value people based on their net worth! One Dollar, One Vote, that's what I always say.
Old-school forums have single points of contact. They're no more private than ActivityPub, but a takedown to the admin is a takedown of all instances. Obviously public data can be cached or archived, so as always you have to send takedowns to every archival service, search engine, and any CDNs too.
The GDPR "applies" whenever an EU resident's data is stored. The enforcement requires some presence in the EU by the entity storing the data. For multinational companies that means if they have any banking services there (e.g. taking payments from EU customers) they have a presence. For individual fediverse admins, that's not necessarily a concern. At worst their instance's domain would get blacklisted to EU users.
1: Anything that's federated is public (to instance admins) and can't be reliably deleted.
For ActivityPub, that's pretty much everything except user account.
For email (SMTP) that's sender, recipient, subject, and usually body.
Etc. Instance admins can log whatever they want. Laws like the GDPR or CCPA don't apply to all instances.
2: User signup is much harder because choice paralysis over which instance to join often sets in. That in turn leads to default recommendations, resulting in centralization in a few instances. E.g. lemmy.world, beehaw.org, sh.itjust.works, lemmy.ml for lemmy, Gmail, Apple mail, MS Live email, AWS email options for email.
Contabo's sign up page lets you pay for up to 12 months at a time, in advance. It's quite possible they paid for a year, set it up, and then forgot about it or haven't been able to administer it for other reasons.
Rural Scotland has a lot of single-track roads. One lane for two directions, 50mph speed limit, with pull-offs every few hundred feet so cars can stop and let others pass. FUN™.
In the Beginning, there was the Word, and the Word was God.
A-well-a everybody's heard about the 𓄿!
𓅀 𓅁 𓅂, b-𓅃's the word
A-well-a 𓅄 𓅅 𓅆, 𓅇 is the word
A-well-a 𓅈 𓅉 𓅊, well-a 𓅋 is the word
A-well-a 𓅌 𓅍 𓅎, b-𓅏's the word
A-well-a 𓅐 𓅑 𓅒, well-a 𓅓 is the word
A-well-a 𓅔, 𓅕, b-𓅖's the word
A-well-a 𓅗 𓅘 𓅙, b-𓅚's the word
A-well-a 𓅛 𓅜 𓅝, well-a 𓅞 is the word
A-well-a 𓅟, 𓅠, b-𓅡's the word
A-well-a don't you know, about the 𓅢?
Well, everybody knows that the 𓅣 is the word!
A-well-a 𓅤, 𓅥, b-𓅦's the 𓅧
A-well-a
A-well-a everybody's heard, about the 𓅨!
𓅩 𓅪 𓅫, b-𓅬's the word
A-well-a 𓅭 𓅮 𓅯, b-𓅰's the word
A-well-a 𓅱 𓅲 𓅳, b-𓅴's the word
A-well-a 𓅵, 𓅶, b-𓅷's the word
A-well-a 𓅸, b-bird's the word
A-well-a 𓅹, b-𓅺's the word
(Side note: those aren't emoji, actual Ejyptian Heiroglyphs have a Unicode block, range U+13000..U+1342F.)
Note that PGP only encrypts the body, not the subject, sender, or recipient. So it's only partial encryption and not very private compared to modern messaging services like Matrix. This is a fundamental limitation of email. It's "Pretty Good Privacy", not "Very Good Privacy".
Of course you don't value people based on their productivity! That's downright anti-American "from each according to his ability" commie talk! You value people based on their net worth! One Dollar, One Vote, that's what I always say.
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