@dansup did you ask him what features he’s missing? Or what bugs frustrate him? Don’t discard the opportunity to get candid feedback that could help you make pixelfed that much better.

@ryanhoulihan You hit the nail on the head with the phrase "that I know of". Forcing due process adds transparency and accountability that isn't present under the CCP's totalitarian regime. There's no such thing as a perfect system (root knows the US gov. is certainly not perfect) but given the choice between having that transparency and accountability and not having it... I choose the lesser evil.

@ryanhoulihan If you think that that's not true you don't know the things that I know. Which is fine, most people don't know them and I can't share most of those things publicly. But if you'd spend some time on google you can find legal cases where big tech has fought the DOJ and won, forcing them to go through due process in international courts to get data from non-US citizens.

@ryanhoulihan They don't do it for all data, only data that has locality requirements. And for that data, the CIA and FBI don't get shit without going through the appropriate legal process in those jurisdictions.

@ryanhoulihan Yes.

@ryanhoulihan It's no different than any other chinese tech company. The problem is that it is a chinese tech company and it is a vote of no confidence in the chinese government. Tech firms can and do and have succeeded in fighting government requests for data in the US and EU. They would not have that choice in China.

@ryanhoulihan What they could do to remove this problem is to engineer the systems such that they themselves have no direct access to the data. A company incorporated and operated in a jurisdiction outside of China would act as a data custodian. They would have sole access to the infrastructure, and ByteDance would have to filter any requests for data through them. This would help ensure due process is followed.

@ryanhoulihan I think there are some legitimate concerns about how much access the Chinese government has to Tiktok user data with the parent company being based in China. There are workarounds for this that Tiktok could implement and, as far as I know, has not.

@dansup @pixelfed ew. Hate that. Some people are creeps.

@GossiTheDog I had to figure this out by looking through diffs/changelogs... Sign up for hcaptcha, you get a site key and a secret key. Set those to HCAPTCHA_SITE_KEY and HCAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY respectively in your mastodon environment. Restart the web service and you'll have a new check-box to enable hCaptcha on the signup settings page in the admin panel.