I believe that votes are private in the sense that they are out of view unless you go digging for them. A bit like stepping behind a curtain to have a conversation in a room full of people.
As for saved posts, Looking at the documentation, I think that that is local to your home server only.
Only if your home server remains unfederated. Even then other users of the server will be able to see everything. And will be more likely to remember, like miss Busy Body.
As for this being experimental software. Yes? So? So is the internet. It has really only been under strain for 20 years. (It older then that, I know. I grew up using dialup to BBSs. Then USENET. Then AOL.) We are still making this shit up as we go along. But it’s best not to forget human nature.
As for your last statement, yea….. I’m going to just let that one be…
Quite. But she is usually sweet and was often the first to help pick you up when you fell. ‘Cause god knows she was probably there watching.
But now that I’ve actually had time to read your post, I stand by my original comment except to add this:
What in God’s name makes you think that you aren’t being tracked on the Fediverse! It’s an open damned platform! Everyone can see everything! Whether they care or not is another matter entirely.
You must have either grown up post-internet or in one of the bigger cities. I assure you, in small towns like where I grew up, (particularly before the internet) old miss Busy Body down the street would never let ANYONE forget every embarrassing moment anyone ever had. The more scandalous or embarrassing the moment, the more likely it was to be retold. And retold. And retold. Till EVERYONE knew.
The only thing that has changed is the detail of the retelling. The tales still seem to get bigger and more scandalous with each retelling.
Saving this to read later, when I have time. So my apologies if this is not relevant.
When using any sort of social media you are effectively shouting, at the top of you lungs, in the middle of town square. What privacy are you expecting? If you want privacy, join me in “bed”. For “pillow talk.”
I do expect my account to be secure, in that no one should be able to pretend to be me. But privacy? Not in town square, while standing on the bullpup. Holding a megaphone.
I wouldn’t trust Imgur or any other cloud hosting for that matter. In addition to the risk of them closing up shop without warning, they could simply decide they don’t like you. (Looking at you Google.)
If all your looking for is remote photo storage and sharing, you don’t really need a “beefy” server. You could do that on something as low power as a rpi 3. It would be painfully slow but it would be doable. For that task you mostly just need storage. Possibly lots and lots of storage.
Personally, I use nextcloud and it works for my needs, but I’ve heard good things about photoprism. Piwigo looks interesting but I don’t know much about it.
You should be fine. If you are using port forwarding the inbound traffic on that port should be sent only to the system you have designated. The only way that changes is if the system (rpi in this case) is operating as a reverse proxy. Even then net side should only see the proxy.
The biggest vulnerability would be the system that you are forwarding to, and if that system is a reverse proxy whatever the backend systems are. Make sure everything is fully updated/patched and that you trust the services that you are running and you should be good.
My only comment on your setup would be to make sure you fully understand what you are doing and more importantly, why. Cargo Culting is a bad way to admin. Good questions like yours are a good way to start.
In both services you are basically shouting into a giant megaphone. What’s so private about it? If you don’t want say it in public, don’t say it there.
If you need privacy there are much better tools available such as pgp encrypted email or encrypted Matrix DMs (a nonfederated Matrix sever would be even more secure but rather overkill).
Edit: specified encrypting Matrix DMs. I forgot for a moment that you can send unencrypted DMs over Matrix.
Damn, is there anything they don’t want to know?