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#JoinDiaspora uses #Amazon servers. Usage of JoinDiaspora is consent to be surveilled.
#JD #PRISM #Surveillance #NoBetterThanFacebook
https://pod.mxchange.org/p/150051
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And not just that #pod, every pod where a user from #joindiaspora is sharing with someone outside is affected because !diaspora is allowing 3rd-party requests ...
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@roland @rolanddiaspora Unfortunately, JD has too many users. They use #Amazon #cloud because it'd be too expensive to host any other way. For !Diaspora, like most #federated networks, keeping a node's operating costs under control depends on distributing the hosting costs among many #podmins / admins who host or !selfhost themselves and possibly a limited number of other users.
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@roland @rolanddiaspora ... That said, I'm happy to see the bigger pods limiting sign-ups and directing people to choose-your-node sites. Over time, maybe JD and a few other big pods will shrink to a size where they can again host on a few #VPS or dedicated servers without #Amazon's #cloud hosting and CDN.
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@lnxw48 Same applies to !gnusocial, I think. That is why people should not just one instance (like a bee colony) but may want to start their own instance and then #federate with other people on other instances (load balancing between instances). And that is also why I give only limited people access to my !diaspora #pod.
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@lnxw48 that is a nice tendency to see. I check now my settings for my #pod. :-)
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@roland Yes, and also to any other #federated network. I hate seeing all the JS that Evan's #PumpIO sites load from cloudflare & google, for instance.
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@lnxw48 #Cloudflare and #Google? Tag: #NSA ... And it is always easy to self-host these JavaScript frameworks. And: every 3rd-party request can be used as a beacon: As the 3rd-party website admin you can see where the user has clicked (referral URL), which browser he/she uses and which IP address. And !diaspora has (very bad) #HTTP requests within a #HTTPS sesssion. ;-( #privacy-leak
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@roland @lnxw48 yes cloudflare is risky but i enabled it partial on the pags subdomain as a feature for low-speed users. in the end theres still no proof the traffic isnt monitored.