Post AXGmDkY1DZS2KEDM4u by silberfuchs@social.edist.ro
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(DIR) Post #AXGkn7saGNruukZgjg by rechelon@mastodon.social
2023-07-02T01:52:21Z
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My attitude on the Kolektiva breach is close to what my attitude was when I pointed out Riseup's canary had gone dead and then shit blew up.It's bad. It's not quite as bad as some people imply. Admins fucked up by failing to have better security from get-go, but they're not maliciously or dishonest and some of their moves make some sense. Still. The catastrophe was locked in when radicals accepted community centralization. Probably their greater sin is de facto encouraging that centralization.
(DIR) Post #AXGkzmGnux57etw6Km by rechelon@mastodon.social
2023-07-02T02:03:16Z
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Generally in these cases part of the reason the community centralizes is that the admins are elders with wide connections and respect from eons doing shit. This means that they really do care and have generally good practices, and are sincerely trying their best re the trolley problems that involve how much to reveal on certain things.But goddamn, I'm sick of older anarchist techies like Moxie w Signal embracing centralization.
(DIR) Post #AXGmDjozuxRG4b9Ou8 by rechelon@mastodon.social
2023-07-02T02:05:48Z
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I say that while continuing to sit on mastodon .social, because I don't trust a small server to not fall over in a year from admin life situation stuff and force me to rebuild followers on an endless treadmill, and I've long been worried Kolektiva would go down from its centralization as THE anarchist server. We need better ways to backup and transfer and we need better ways to bootstrap new admins with the tools to keep smaller servers up.
(DIR) Post #AXGmDkY1DZS2KEDM4u by silberfuchs@social.edist.ro
2023-07-02T02:06:52Z
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@rechelon it is now fairly uncomplicated to move between servers. this account started out on Kolektiva and moved between three other instances before we started this one.
(DIR) Post #AXGmDlGgXVBEYl71hQ by rechelon@mastodon.social
2023-07-02T02:12:18Z
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@silberfuchs Eh. The attempted auto-refollow dynamic is a HUGE improvement from the early days but there is a fuck ton that could be improved re one's archives, links, etc via some crypto work. And the re-following may bring some but it still loses you a lot of connections in practice.
(DIR) Post #AXGmDlvS5vn2bCBaF6 by rechelon@mastodon.social
2023-07-02T02:15:40Z
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@silberfuchs If you're on a small server and it suddenly ceases to exist or if the admin decides to delete you because you called out his rapist buddy, then you're basically deleted from existence. There are a lot of imperfect tradeoffs here and server transfer still depends on a lot of assumptions.
(DIR) Post #AXGwLAdhbhhGoe3Abw by hayley@social.applied-langua.ge
2023-07-02T04:11:02.021120Z
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@mart0 @rechelon Most of that could be eliminated with _more_ decentralisation i.e. replicating users and user data across multiple nodes. Then getting booted from or otherwise losing access to a node isn't an issue; but now forgetting your password is a much worse issue.
(DIR) Post #AXGwYbc4dALeEoh8Do by rechelon@mastodon.social
2023-07-02T04:12:09Z
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@hayley @mart0 Yeah, this is something I've talked about before: with better cryptographic handlings of identity, export, etc, we could have individual accounts MESH hosted across multiple servers, providing resiliency and distribution.
(DIR) Post #AXGx0uo8rJn9sSq3Bg by hayley@social.applied-langua.ge
2023-07-02T04:18:44.121182Z
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@rechelon @mart0 I was working on implementing such things, but people didn't seem to think there were issues ("I'm just going to post cat pictures, my admins aren't going to cause problems," "but if you don't like your server you can just use another server!") and I gave up on the project.