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Noticing a lot of progressive techy people like to shit on Koletiva generally but especially today, and like... You do-gooder normies are at basically zero fucking risk of being raided by the cops because the "activism" you do is mostly useless, so may fucking cut it out with the potshots at admins here.
"Uhhhhhhh but the admin had an an unencrypted local copy of the DB."
Yes, that is not a good move, but basically everyone is constantly doing wildly unsafe computer shit because sometimes they just need to fucking make it work. FFS people still email passport photos around offices and they end up sitting on some corporate mail server (and a local copy) for a decade cuz Walter the dinosaur is still around and never empties his inbox.
"Unsafe" shit happens all the time, but also you fucking techy weirdos don't face fuckall for repression, so I'm really not interested in hearing anything from you people about this situation.
Shut the entire fuck up. If you or your friends haven been a) raided by the feds or cops with rifles/submachine guns in the early morning or b) faced 10+ years in prison, you can take your snark and get in the fucking sea.
@hakan_geijer a lot of these tech bro takes are coming from whitehats that work in Enterprise environments. Some of their arguments make sense, but not for a small crew like those behind kolektiva. The devs are the admins a lot of the times in these situations. 
Besides, do we really think other instances are going to put up resistance to LEA requests? Not one bit. I'll stick with the crew I know I can trust to stand up for me and mine when they can.
@ACAB @hakan_geijer for sure. Half these nerds would fold the second the FBI says they need help "combating extremism"
@hakan_geijer It would be nice to have some smaller instances to make it a little harder to get so much info all at once.
That's a fair criticism, but it involves people standing up their own better or at least as-good smaller instances as options with similar values and commitment to moderation.
@hakan_geijer ngl I am both very impressed by the fact kolektiva admins actually do stuff, but also I'm not sure I wanna be on a high risk instance I suppose? Like I'm very boring, I don't commit crimes, and if I did I wouldn't post about them, but I also idk I don't want to be on a high-risk instance.
Like my first thought was "oh the admin had an unencrypted db downloaded? Sounds like the sort of thing everyone says they'd never do until they need to and don't have an extra four hours to deal with an SSH connection to an in-production server using most of its processing power for other tasks". I haven't run a social media server before but I do run multiple VPS for mail administration and I've had to do that before, only difference is I have dedicated computers for this stuff because it's what I do for a living, I'm not a volunteer doing IT server administration from my fucking bedroom or w/e.
The thing that's suspicious to me is that IF what the feds were after was the server data specifically, and IF it wasn't a coincidence (which seems reasonable to assume, if you assume a mantra that you maybe shouldn't underestimate the imperial secret police), it's weird they knew precisely when to hit. I wouldn't jump to "there's a rat", there are several ways it could happen with all the tools available to the feds, but I am interested in how they knew when to hit.