Federation is an overly complicated solution it’s not required. It also wouldn’t actually help, they can still take it off the app store there’d be another one but they would just play whack-a-mole and you can achieve the same thing with open source.
The best bet would be to have the database hosted outside the US and just have apps that pull the data from an API. There’s no need for the app itself to store the data in fact that’s a really stupid way to do it. You could federate it if you wanted but honestly that’s probably unnecessary
Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 3 weeks ago
At the very least I hope it’s hosted by someone outside the US so it’s out of reach to the authorities.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
For all we know the app might just be a honeypot itself
andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
This is a genuine concern that we should recognize.
I’m about 99% confident it isn’t, but considering it is the kind of caution we should all be exercising these days.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’sprobably not a honeypot. But it’s also likely to be negligent enough in implementation that it might as well be.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
How would we learn either way if it was or wasn't?
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s always worth considering. A phone app doesn’t take a big operating budget to launch and maintain. Especially for state-actors.