if there’s any wiggle room or grey area to what you are doing or organizing— for the love of god stop using a program that isn’t encrypted it’s just asking for this shit
Over the past ~decade, I feel like a few things kind of all happened simultaneously:
- Centralized platforms decisively won out over decentralized platforms. And by "decentralized" I don't mean "like Mastodon", I just mean "a bunch of webpages and a bunch of services", so that a single account takedown couldn't erase your entire project and your entire identity.
- Companies got a lot more hands-off about open piracy1, so a lot of people lost (or never had) the instinct that you should at least try to hide this stuff.
- A new batch of people who never saw earlier versions of the internet are adults now, and they've only known the version where everyone does stuff on a small group of centralized corporate-owned platforms totally in the open.
It's a recipe for disaster and we're only just starting to see what it's going to do to a lot of the kinds of projects that would have taken real precautions 10-15 years ago.
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No I'm not claiming Yuzu is inherently piracy, but obviously there's a connection here.