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Sounds like a business opportunity. Federated software vendor: we do the dirty work so you can start a new instance with one click.
by all2 5y ago
Sounds like a business opportunity.
Federated software vendor: we do the dirty work so you can start a new instance with one click.
- andrewzah 5y agoThere are services like that for Mastodon [0]. But a provider that lets you host from a choice of e.g. mastodon, pleroma, lemmy etc would be interesting. [0]: https://masto.host/ https://masto.host/
- coldacid 5y agoMasto.host is run by one of those people who put inflexible ideology ahead of the wants and needs of their users. That is ever a concern when having a third party set up and manage everything for you.
- harpersealtako 5y agomasto.host has a great deal of restrictive, somewhat arbitrary content moderation policies for what is basically just a server host[0]. Since that the original problem is that admins may want to override built-in censorship policies to suit their instance's needs and values, I don't think an even more censorious centralized authority is a great example of a solution. [0]: https://masto.host/tos/ https://masto.host/tos/
- andrewzah 5y agoI have no affiliation, nor a recommendation. Just noticed that they do provide that service. Using any hosting provider is ultimately a risk compared to hosting yourself, that's the price you pay for not having the know-how to host it yourself. And even if you do selfhost, cloudflare may wake up one day and say "nah".
- tedunangst 5y agoDoes that one click also edit the source code?
- all2 5y agoI suppose users could apply patches and alter configurations? Caveat Emptor: we do not offer customer support for altered source/configs.