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FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (www.eff.org)
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[โ€“] Odo@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From what I read, it looks like they were hosting off-site, but had an unencrypted backup of the database locally at the time of the raid.

[โ€“] Zorque@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

So the reaction we should be having is to be careful whose instance you sign up for?