🆕 Software Suggestion | Distbin | Category: Pastebin #1060
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Description
Distbin is an Pastebin service using ActivityPub.
It also allows commenting on a significant portion of its paste(s). Enabling public comment on directly copy-pasted content.
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Name: Distbin
Category: #paste
URL: https://distbin.com/
License: Apache License 2.0
Git/Source Code: https://github.com/gobengo/
It looks interesting, but I am not entirely sure on it's privacy.
Can the data ever be removed? Or is it like SKS keyservers? See also https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/pull/671#pullrequestreview-231293616 (which also reveals my inner conflict about this).
@Mikaela One of my favorite features about Distbin is that data can stay around for a while.
It is great for just publishing data.
You aren't really gonna get the same level of encryption as alternatives. It just wasn't what it was intended for. It has a different use case than PrivateBin.
@Mikaela I don't believe Distbin uses Bittorrent (correct me if wrong).
I believe it just uses ActivityPub, which is much more private.
I think Mastodon itself also says that ActivityPub is not private and it should not be relied upon on truly private messages.
all and all, it seems to be more of an anti censorship tool rather then a privacy tool, so i don't think its appropriate to list it. its a cool tool nonetheless. would people agree with closing?
@blacklight447-ptio I would like to better understand the reasoning, it seems like you saying out of scope. However, other services like Mastadon are recommended:
https://www.privacytools.io/providers/social-networks/
Despite many concerns, everything on Mastadon is always public.
I think most of use understand the reasoning for this, but is definitely a point to be made.
@Mikaela If you have the source, I would like to read this. However, Mastadon never is a good protocol for stuff to be kept private. In fact, no decentralized data structure is.
Protocols like Mastadon share their data with everyone by default.
If you want your data safe, some have considered making it only speak to certain IPs (where authorized users can view) and using E2EE to verify the instance cannot read it.
Distbin, is meant to be social and doesn't yet have an encryption.
I will consider creating an issue to discuss this more there as well.
To add onto what other's have stated:
I think Distbin uses Server-to-Server federation (correct if wrong):
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub#Server_implementation
From an IP anonymity standpoint, only the server's address is shared.
Therefore, it shouldn't have the same issues as Torrenting.