Just feel things are very different now. Much harder to fight/work around with govt. And this leads to my 2nd link that, kinds of conspiracy, that we maybe already have backdoor in open source projects because they are hard to detect as long as there are pre-build tools.

Anyway, lots of feelings after reading this post…

How things is done 30 years ago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_investigation

And this by Ken Thompson 40 years ago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_(computing)#Compiler_backdoors

Haha, and I smiled when I looking for the single quote in your password and sure it is there👍👍

Or, I think this can be, kinds of, archived by ‘simple’ enhancement at client side without changing today’s server side implementation. At Lemmy client, user can choose to group several different communities to user defined virtual community. Like today’s client, we have ‘All’ and ‘subscribrd’ 2 big groups, If the web/app client allow user define more group like ‘news’ ‘meme’ etc, and combined then in one view, then that’s pretty much meet your needs? Tbh, this will be very cool feature if any client can do this, or there is already such client?

Also, don’t forget Debian testing. Once you are comfortable or gain enough experience to move closer to not-that-stable, or, if you have spare machine/harddisk to try now, Debian testing is a very good balance between stable and unstable. I know many people against it, so just my opinion and I am happily use it as my main desktop as well on my home sever for 10+ years. Again I am IT person and rare case it does breaks. if you ever want to try some new packages, there is Debian testing.