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What are the cybersecurity weaknesses of the Fediverse?
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I've been doing these in general recently and it's good privacy a security practice. Also slowly replacing my main e-mail address in different service accounts with disposable forwarding e-mail addresses.
Edit: Other than that read a bit more about Lemmy and fediverse workings, verify what instance you're viewing and navigate to the desired community via your instance as others have mentioned.
I would like to underline and insist on using unique passwords. Many users like myself are joining small instances to get better performance and reduce the strain on the main servers, but anyone can spin up an instance and then poof, your password is gone if they can get you to sign up!
This was always the case for normal websites on the internet however. I strongly recommend everyone use a good password manager to prevent one breach from cascading into a breach of all your accounts. It's good OPSEC.
Also, check which instance you're signing into before you give them your password. Accidentally trying to log into the wrong instance with an account for a different instance is the same as handing them your password. A community could easily be hosted on some tiny server somewhere by a guy named Joe and do you trust him with your password?