I have some feedback for OP: my personal website got 92% because there is a link to my X profile in the contact session. It's not like it relies on the service. Its just a contact and there are also links to other services such as self hosted matrix.

On the other hand my registrar is Namecheap which is in the US and your tool didn't checked for that. I think thats a lot more important in terms of dependance than a link to a social network so you could run a whois lookup to check what registrar is hosting that domain.

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sjamaan 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Good point regarding registrar. Thinking a bit further, there's also the top-level domain: if that's under US control (eg .com), it could still be yanked away from you.

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jacquesm 2 days ago | parent [-]

This is a massive risk that will affect half the internet or so.

	▲	_blk 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		.onion might be exempt but while the TLD "." is anycast worldwide for the actual DNS service, Verisign still signs the cert. Isn't that a show-stopper for dependencies on dns-over-https or https altogether or do .cn, .ru, .ir etc all add/replace with their own independent signatures ?

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cmkr a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

1. Link to X profile ≠ dependency on X. Will differentiate links from embeds in v0.2.

2. Registrar check is a good thinking. Already have some stubs in the codebase. Namecheap is US and could theoretically be compelled. Adding to roadmap.

Thanks!

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esmIII 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

If you post on X. You are a content creator supporting Elon.

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Etheryte 2 days ago | parent [-]

While this is true, it has nothing to do with the tech sovereignty of the site itself.

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pixl97 2 days ago | parent [-]

While I'd say you're mostly correct, I do disagree some.

There is quite a large issue with sites posting things like current events on social sites like Facebook, or other rapid news events on X. Doing this has the potential to diminish your sovereignty. For example if you tell your users to follow X on the site and you're posting some event that Musk doesn't like, maybe you're posts will disappear.

Is something to think about.

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carlosjobim 2 days ago | parent [-]

It's absolutely not something to think about, unless you are in some kind of cult.

This website is also foreign to Europeans, so what are you then doing here contributing with your comments?

It is probably time for Europeans to start dealing with their problems in different ways than having internal "purity purges". It has never worked, and will never work. It makes people weak and easily defeated in every endeavor.

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pixl97 2 days ago | parent [-]

>internal "purity purges"

"Hey France, I know all of a sudden Germany is suddenly running around with black white and red flag, but it's completely cool if we have them manage all of our critical infrastructure". --carlosjobim 1937

I'm in the US. I'm watching what's going on here. If you want to talk about any group doing purity purges, they have ICE printed in big letters on their jackets.

Of course feel free to pull an IBM in the 40's and stick with the regime, it evidently has no long term business repercussions.

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carlosjobim 2 days ago | parent [-]

Yes, yes obviously everybody who doesn't participate eagerly in purity purges are themselves a nazi collaborator, foreign spy, reactionary saboteur on the MI6 payroll, maybe a crypto-jew, a jesuit, a lutheran, etc etc

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pixl97 2 days ago | parent [-]

Sometimes, just sometimes there are evil people out there that you don't want to associate with. Other times, if evil isn't an issue for you, that said evil entity represents a business continuity risk by using their services.

It's up to you to decide those risks, but it seems rather 'anti-free speech' to say that I can't recommend that you think about those risks in the first place. By use of this service you are not purging anyone. You are enlightening your current position and using that information to make next steps.

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carlosjobim 2 days ago | parent [-]

Linking to the Facebook page of a small business is considered stepping over the line by this so called "sovereignty audit" tool. Sure, we can call that "associating with evil people". I say it's a cultish purity purge - a recipe for failure for those who participate. Because very quickly they start looking for impurities with each other and fragmentize into different sects.

	▲	pixl97 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think this may reflect more on how you see things then the other people you supposedly talk about.