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.
Reading the comments, you seem incredibly paranoid about this. Like, incredibly. I don’t mean this to be disparaging, but like, this kinda reads like “I live in a bunker because standard construction is not sufficiently resistant to hellfire missiles”.
I bring this up because at the level of security risk you’re concerned over, the only actual threats would be groups with significant resources specifically interested in you, personally, or at least your online presence. And given your reference to the NSA, I would presume you live in the US, where you realistically aren’t breaking any laws in browsing except maybe some trivial copyright law that isn’t worth the resources to enforce, meaning the biggest security threat, the government, isn’t a particularly realistic one.
Or, shudder a concern troll at work. If they’re genuine then the admins have provided enough input in the topic.