Just got through reading this article from the EFF on the kolectiva.social FBI raid and what happened with it.
Rather interesting and the recommendations the EFF give are smart and sensible for admins, users, and developers.
The article concentrates on mainly mastodon, but everything can still apply to other fediverse software like Lemmy, Kbin, Pixelfed, etc, etc.
I trust the instance admins on all of the instances I have accounts on, but even then it’s good practice to act as if you don’t. Don’t send anything incriminating or illegal via unencrypted messages.
Same goes if you have a laptop or whatever for work by the way; assume your employers are monitoring your internet traffic, so don’t do piracy or whatever on work machines.
If I were running a Mastodon or Lemmy or whatever instance I’d basically say “Look, you can trust me with your data, and I promise I won’t violate your privacy, but you should act as if you can’t. If there’s anything you REALLY don’t want me or the UK/US government to know about, use an encrypted messaging platform.”