Posts on NSFW communities on Burggit are inaccessible to visitors of the site who are not logged in, meaning these communities can only be browsed pseudonymously. There are two reasons why I think this restriction should be lifted:
- Security and privacy: Some people on the internet may wish not for their browsing habits to be connected to an account and may wish to minimise identifiers. Some browse the internet with cookies disabled. Some have to live paranoidly on the internet due to where they live and other life situation reasons, and these people won’t be able to enjoy the NSFW communities on Burggit.
- Discoverability: To check out NSFW communities, people have to register an account, so it’s not possible to make a decision after seeing if you like the instance. Previously, you could browse Burggit’s NSFW communities on lemmynsfw.com without an account but after they defederated, this isn’t an option either. There might be other instances you can use now, but it’s not a good idea to count on other instances for this purpose.
I’m curious about what you think about this.
Well, the thing with systems is they get breached. This sounds cool, but there’s no assurance to anyone that a) there isn’t actually more logging, b) the NSA isn’t reading from your live 50 MB logs (lol), c) Burger won’t turn on us all one day. Apart from that, what a skilled person (with a lot of resources as their disposal) can do with very little data to find out where and who someone is using that minimal account correlation, even behind TOR, can be surprising. Some people are worried about that sort of stuff, and they’re not really in a position to come out and talk about it, either. “Will my speech patterns in my post be analyzed and traced back to me,” etc. A user can take whatever precautions they need (wear their internet condom, go through their internet condom ritual), and worry about everything else, but the part they can’t control is where they have to trust an instance to keep their account-to-HTTP-requests data completely safe forever.
I find this really offensive so I’m going to disengage. You have yourself a good one.
That was just an example of the general idea about how you can never trust someone running a service on the internet. I meant no offense toward you specifically even thought I used you as an example, so I apologize.
And people are welcome to use whatever measures makes them feel comfortable. There’s not really anything else I can say on the matter beyond what I already have. There’s nothing that can feasibly be done about NSFW content being visible for non-logged in users unless it get implemented into the Lemmy software, or we fork it, but we do not have the resources to properly maintain a fork. I’ll have to leave the conversation here.
I understand. In my reply, I wasn’t trying to push my request. I was just responding to your points.