Thanks for the heads up! That’s definitely something we hadn’t considered. We’ll start looking into it!

Very helpful! We are already looking into a VPN, just undecided which one to go with, so I’ll send this comment to him. Thank you!

Hey! My husband is thinking about doing something similar with his, can you share any resources you used? He’s done programming before but never with a raspberry pi, and he’s not sure where to start.

What!?

Yeah, everyone knows you use Bing for porn.

This answered all of my questions and really helped me understand what happened, thank you so much for having the patience to walk me through it!

It sounds like using apps to access Lemmy is more secure than signing in on your mobile browser (which is what I’m currently doing.)

I tried a couple apps last week but didn’t like them, I think I’ll revisit that today.

Thanks again!

Can I ask some possibly dumb questions?

1. What is JWT?
2. Was any private user data compromised, and if so will users be informed?
3. Is there anything regular users can do to avoid their data being compromised? For example, not accessing lemmy on certain web browsers?

Thank you!

Thank you, that’s very reassuring! I was able to go in after the fact and delete my email from my account, though I’m not sure how much good that will do. I’m definitely going to look into those, the Firefox relay in particular sounds pretty user friendly. I don’t know when I lost my tech savvy, but it’s getting harder and harder to keep up with things these days.

Speaking of which, does Lemmy remind anyone else of irc? The organized chaos has been giving me deja vu and I think I just realized why…

I’m not worried about upvotes or downvotes being seen by anyone, but I am very worried about other personal info being seen by any admins. I have a very real, very scary stalker, and if all they had to do was create an instance to see my private information…

To be clear, I know that’s not what’s currently happening, but it feels like a bit of a slippery slope when pretty much anyone can become an admin and things aren’t super secure yet.

I’m kind of regretting giving my email to sign up, now. I just don’t know enough about this stuff to know whether or not that’s a valid concern.

There were T-shirts?

Question from a noob: are you guys making new accounts for every instance? How do you keep track of that? Or are my login credentials supposed to work across instances as long as they’re federated? I went to vlemmy.net and neither of the above is working. But also there’s a button that says “support Lemmy” and Lemmy.world is where I made this account… so wouldn’t I logically be able to use the same login credentials? I’m so lost!