I came here for the same reasons as most of you and chiefly among them was to escape the corporate embrace of common social media platforms.
But how much trust can we place into Lemmy, Mastodon, and/or other various integrated Fediverse platform instances?
I’m all for open-source and transparency which the devs seem to provide, although providing source code and routinely audited source code are entirely different concepts.
Similarly, the high availability of source code may lead to malicious instances, actors, and/or back-end modifications that would favor specific instances resounding consequence throughout the Fediverse.
So I ask simply: How much faith do you have? (Please provide supporting documentation links supporting your answer because I’m genuinely interested.)
EDIT: I literally removed a semi-colon character ‘:’
I have quite a lot of faith, but I think the majority of my faith is that whilst you’re right that abuses can happen because some people are cunts, there seems to be a groundswell of willingness to react to that possibility and tackle it.
The relatively recent CSAM attack on .world Communities is a prime example of that. Code was written and systems put into place (not by the lead developers it has to be said but by @db0 and others) to tackle that threat.
You’re pointing at the ugliest corner there is, and yet I’d like to point out that there’s been that kind of attack yesterday and the day before; and the tools and people reacted well enough for it to go unnoticed for most folk on the fediverse.