Father of @flairchange_bot and @AutoMod.

Developer of Based Count.

I’ve sorta built this place.

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Cake day: July 12th, 2023
  • Nerd02@forum.basedcount.comtoFediverse@lemmy.world•Fediverse questions I couldn't find the answer anywhereEnglish
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    1 year ago

    1. I’d say the suggested practice is going with smaller instances (i.e. anything that isn’t lemmy.ml or even worse lemmy.world). But sure, if you want to spin up a custom instance that would be even better. You’d have the advantage of being able to customize your experience a lot more (changing themes, editing the code to fix stuff you don’t like, managing your own emojis…)

    2. I’d say around 10€ a month. My instance pays around that (maybe a little more, can’t remember) and we have over 100 users. It’s really not that expensive.

    3. You become a mega janny. You have to draft server wide rules, appoint mods and make sure they don’t screw up by letting banned content through. Depending on your country’s laws and where your instance is hosted, you might risk hosting illegal stuff for which you as an admin would be liable.

    Others have already replied to 4. and 5. so I’m not going to make this wall of text any longer.

  • Nerd02@forum.basedcount.comtoTechnology@beehaw.org•How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)English
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    1 year ago

    Couldn’t the protocol be updated to be more compliant with the right to be forgotten? Something like, when a user deletes a comment it gets deleted from the DB of every federated instance. Sure enough, admins might have made backups and that would theoretically go against the GDPR but still… you can only apply these laws to a certain extent. It’s the same as you posting a picture on Facebook, me downloading it and you deleting it afterwards. Even if you were to make a GDPR request to Meta you still couldn’t get the picture on my PC. But that’s not Meta’s fault, they can’t do much about that.