whiskers @ whiskers @lemmy.world

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It is reasonable because I can have a trust basis with my followers who are my friends/family. If a malicious instance host can just use a plugin to view follower only post, that's not going to be expected by an average user. That's why I posted in YSK.

I wasn't aware of PGP, thanks for that info!

Yes, but there is a reasonable assumption that your pictures will only be viewed by your followers on Instagram. I can't see myself switching to PixelFed. I've completely switched from Reddit and Twitter to Mastodon, Lemmy, as I don't tend to share my personal information there anyways.

There are laws that you can enforce by suing them. It's probably not going to be the case here

Are there any major daily driver features from Android missing here? Also are the updates usually stable?

Ofcourse, you can dox yourself in other text based sites like Twitter, Reddit.

But, ActivityPub has other applications like PixelFed. If someone doesn't know about these privacy implications there private pictures can be exposed to even malicious accounts/instances that are not on theit followers list. It's best for everyone to be aware of what they are getting into here.

The article was a nice read. I'm surprised that there is either no awareness or discussion in the privacy conscious tech crowd over here on the lack of privacy from anonymous bad actors. Everyone seems to only care about Meta, who are bad, but the most they will do with our data is advertise to us. The other bad actors enabled by ActivityPub can actually doxx, redistribute, save our posts, messages.

They can already do it by running a simple web scraper or running an anonymous instance that federates with everyone in disguise

How to find the available bots and their instructions on the botsin.space?