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> Which server was the experiment done on and which servers were federated with? They discuss this in their earlier post (https://infosec-handbook.eu/news/2020
by riffic 6y ago
> Which server was the experiment done on and which servers were federated with?
They discuss this in their earlier post (https://infosec-handbook.eu/news/2020-05-31-monthly-review/#fediverse https://infosec-handbook.eu/news/2020-05-31-monthly-review/#...):
"We experienced the shutdown of our Mastodon instance twice. So, we migrated from securitymastod.one to mastodon.at, and then to chaos.social. Each time, we lost all of our posts, leaving behind a considerable number of dead links."
IMO organizations should self-host (same as with email, if you have a domain name that you are commonly associated with). If you aren't doing this, you don't fully understand the mechanics of the Fediverse or the underlying W3C ActivityPub protocols.
edit: by self-host, I mean either run your own infra or subcontract that out to a competent vendor. I don't literally mean self-host in the strictest sense.
- tylerchilds 6y agoThanks for digging that up! Absolutely agreed about self-hosting and treating it like email. I've seen quite a few instances shut down in the ~6 months I've been around. It's a pretty rough experience for people that are coming from the mainstream, since it's probably hard to imagine a social network powered by a rag-tag few people behind each instance and not multi-billion dollar tech behemoths.