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Receiving mail doesn't usually seem to be that difficult, sending mail tends to be the challenge. So if you only care about receiving mail it may be easier.

I tried it a few years ago and it was fine until some asshole impersonated my domain and a major spamlist decided to hate my guts. I'm not a professional email admin so updating to the latest and greatest standards wasn't easy. At least at the time. If you're okay with bounces and silently undelivered mail it's probably fine. It's probably also a lot easier nowadays with scripts and easy how-to guides about how to setup the domain authorization. But my experience really turned me off of the "hey it's fun to run a mail server" thing. Particularly after Google and others came out with the ability to just use Gmail with your own domain.

It really depends on who you "fear". I mostly use Forefox Relay and have chosen Google (Gmail, Android, etc) as the "devil I know". If I end up in a state actor's cross hairs (TLA, etc) I assume I'm a meat popsicle. Mostly I'm trying to thwart internet randos/vigilante and marketing firms that want to violate my privacy and I think Firefox Relay is enough to trip them up.

I don't view Google as escapable and I think they are under a lot of scrutiny. My view of Google is they want to collect and keep data and sell access as a service without losing their own control of the data. I don't see them having much incentive to sell raw data to others.

I have a custom domain name I now use for work-related contacts and societies. Currently it runs Google Apps since I don't want to deal with spamlists etc. But I can easily move it elsewhere with minimal interruption. I almost did during the recent Google Apps drama. I recently changed jobs after being at my previous employer for about 8 years and learned it's a real pain/time sink to chase down contacts otherwise when you move employers. And my new employer has draconian BOFH email retention policies that maybe make sense for employee email but are just hell for my professional but not employer-tied identity/activities. I don't use it for work that belongs to [current employer], it's for work networking things like society memberships, certification agencies, working groups, society committees, etc. Basically work that would apply at any of my employers and would move with me elsewhere.

Are you certain it is the exact same comment or post? I think people are deleting everything (via scripts or whatever--some scripts are known to not work/only appear to be working--particularly ones that internally make use of pushshift or websites that relied on it--which reddit destroyed a few months prior to this incident), but everything isn't actually everything because of the way reddit hides content in certain situations. When people have posted screenshots it has been content from subreddits that had be set private during protests and reopened. Reddit annoyingly hides your own content from yourself in many circumstances.

I'm not saying these undeletes definitely do not happen, but people have needed to delete content on Reddit for reasons the pre-date the protests. The legal risks to reddit for them to be caught restoring content that a user deliberately deleted is significant. So unless a whistleblower or compelling evidence emerges Occam's razor will go with reddit bugs and "features". Everyone knows reddit is bug-ridden. For all we know the delete function is DDOSable.

I'm not convinced that is actually happening. I think it's usually that people deleted when subreddits were private and then things that were not deleted appear when the sub reopens. Sort of dumb that you can't access or delete all your content even when a subreddit is private, but there are also wierd things like you can't see your own comments that were made to people that have blocked you. Dunno if that content reappears of people who have blocked you delete their accounts. Basically... Reddit is dumb.

I think when I started out with Lemmy a few weeks ago I would have agreed with you. And a lot of that is because "Lemmy" (and kbin) are put out there as alternatives to reddit itself. And the answer to the question about "well, which server do I join?" Seems to be "Pick a server! Any server! They're all equivalent!" And I have learned that's very incorrect and I think that's the wrong framework.

Each server is it's own alternative to reddit.com. ActivityPub allows each servers to grow it's own local community by federation. But that doesn't mean that all communities need to be compatible or that it's bad if certain communities are incompatible. Note very carefully here that I'm talking about communities and not individual users. Individual users choose to be part of a community on their own... by selecting servers to join.

When you think about it that way then all defederation does is mark communities as incompatible. That's not a value judgement about individual users. It's not about individual users. Individual users can easily create accounts on servers that are on either side of a defederation and belong to incompatible communities that way.

If you think back to Reddit, it was already de facto this way. In a lot of cases, if you stumble upon certain subreddits and comment anything whatever you could suddenly find yourself banned and shadowbanned from other subreddits automatically that you have never even interacted with. So in many cases people would be told to create separate accounts for use on either side of these ban walls. And that solution works in the fediverse just as well (if not better). Defederation is a far more humane solution than individual bans and shadowbans and moderators muting you for 72 days when you ask what the heck just happened.

It seems like tooling and clients could really help. For example, if it's easy to just switch accounts and servers in your mobile client or browser or whatever... who cares ultimately? In theory clients can even make it so that it's completely transparent to you by reaching out to multiple servers and using preferred accounts to interact with each instance.

Ultimately all defederation really seems to affect at a structural level is intercommunity aggression--that reddit never was able to control well--such as brigading and dogpiling. Good riddance to those modes of community engagement.

People already post multiple social identities already. People have a twitter, instagram, facebook, tiktok etc and share them all where they care to. Having multiple fediverse accounts shouldn't be more different than that at the end of the day.

And not to be "reddit" about it, but many of those hateful subreddit communities are very familiar with the concept of having multiple accounts and compartmentalized identities. They often explicitly advise each other to have one account for the hateful subreddits and another account for the rest of non-hateful reddit.

All they are asked to do is... exactly the same duplicitous thing they've done forever on reddit. Problem: solved. If they can't even manage to pull off that charade...

Leverage for what purpose? To fix reddit? Let reddit die or not die.

Reddit has always come after mirrors and they will easily get courts to take down the instances. Don't forget that prior to the API change they came after pushshift.

Additionally, anyone mirroring reddit on the moral basis that the content is owned by the creators and reddit is an exploitative rentseeker, has an obligation to not become a rentseeker themselves. This means things like ensuring that content that users voluntarily delete is also deleted in the mirrors. Reddit in fact had a large battle with pushshift about this years ago such that pushshift supposedly now only keeps history of moderator and admin edits. I agree with that ethically.

And in many cases you may be legally required to do this. To be clear Reddit made pushshift change to respecting user delete requests because of legal exposure and compliance risks.

Not to mention that you don't really know that anyone intends their content to be mirrored on sites they do not use. Particularly now that Reddit seems to be forcing private subreddits to be open. There's no moral high ground for doing this.

I don't like the idea. It seems like those fake websites that scrape stackoverflow and SEO to ruin Google search. Avoiding those sites are among the reasons people type "reddit" into searches. People want authentic interactions and I think mirroring reddit into Fediverse lacks authenticity and undermines its authenticity. Content here should be from people who are here.

If someone wants to assimilate content from reddit into something new and post it here that's good. That means the person is here and can be interacted with.

If someone wants to repost their own content here, that's also fine. They are here to interact with.

I just really think it's a bad idea to deliberately build a ghost town and think people will move in.

I'm left unsure whether DBMS is fun sex for dyslexics, or BSDM is a dyslexic database.

The less obvious answer is Roko's Basilisk.

Basically it's what they have decided to disclose to law enforcement. So at best it tells you the baseline capabilities of law enforcement.

I thought that at first too based on the icons, but if you read the text it reveals Telegram has the ability to provide IP address (if they can be convinced to).