Fediverse

• A lock or panick button that immediately wipes everything and makes the logs unusable

• Easy support for canaries and transparency from the admins, like on Peertube where you're incentivised to write something about your newly installed instance, where it's located etc

• Maybe take inspiration from European GDPR, assess which information can be used for what, make it transparent to the user what gets stored where and why... Somewhat assisted by the software ao not every admin has to figure that out on their own.

• secure DMs

Btw, nice atmosphere here /s I don't think the general Lemmy audience is very receptive to change. I mean sure, this contradicts with a few fundamentals within how this place is designed. But I think we should make an effort. If I remember correctly, social media played an important role in recent (peaceful) protests and opposition. Like the Arab Spring. And nowadays the big social media platforms are bootlickers and likely to cooperate with the problematic administration. So it's down to the Fediverse if we want to address a general audience. I don't think a complex peer-to-peer solution, maybe backed by onion routing and elaborate encrytion is going to be appealing to the masses. It'd be the correct tool for proper confident conversation. But likely not the tool that connects the millions of regular people.

And I'd aegue "defederate from instances in unsafe countries" doesn't work. We have to treat every one as unsafe and not federate private information in the first place. All other optiins are just error-prone and likely easy to circumvent.