The first incident took place in Eugene, Oregon in the United States when Luers and Craig Marshall planted crude delay devices for an attempted arson of trucks at the Tyree Oil Company. The two placed a section of cloth, which was draped over a gallon milk jug filled with a fuel and soap mixture, in the fuel tank of a double-trailer fuel truck. According to authorities, the potential blast could have caused damage over two city blocks.[4][5]
On June 16, 2000, he set fire to three light trucks at Romania Chevrolet dealership suspectedly via the use of bombs, in Eugene as a protest against excessive consumption and global warming, along with Craig "Critter" Marshall, who was sentenced to five and a half years in prison. The arson destroyed three pickup trucks including a 2000 Silverado.[6] Luers might have received a comparable sentence if he had not been convicted of an earlier attempted arson as well.[7] Luers was initially sentenced to 22 years, 8 months in prison.[8] Supporters argued that his sentence was excessive, because no one was injured and property damage was estimated at only $40,000[8][9]
thumbnail source: https://en.crimethinc.com/2009/01/13/free-jeff-luers-benefit-cd
I didn't follow all the details in the middle of the post. Its over me head.
But if pixelfed did this presumably by accident, wouldn't it be easy enough to create an intentionally malicious fediverse server for the purpose of bypassing privacy measures?
Shouldn't the instances offering the privacy to its own users be the place where the privacy happens? Instead of relying on other hosts to behave well.