This is an issue that's troubled me since joining the Fediverse in 2016, and as one of the people heavily involved in the "Plexodus" diaspora from the late unlamented Google Plus.<p>Whilst large commercial providers have their failure points concerning privacy and law enforcement, they've also often stood up to over-broad attempts to surveil peoples' online activity. Small instances on distributed systems often run as hobbies or <i>very</i> small-scale subscription / donation-based operations might avoid the roving eye of such efforts, but also lack resources, knowledge, and procedures for how to respond when such seizures occur. As the EFF notes, Kolektiva failed to alert its members (and remote contacts) until <i>months</i> after the FBI raid.<p>The EFF does have a promising guide to legal rights and considerations specifically tailored at the Fediverse, which should be read by those administering or using Fediverse systems:<p>"User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer" (2022)<p><<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer" rel="nofollow">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content...</a>>