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> hosted a Mastodon server on the domain Mastodon is often used to distribute illegal content. If you self host you need to be ready to deal with this stuff. L
by t344344 4y ago
> hosted a Mastodon server on the domain
Mastodon is often used to distribute illegal content. If you self host you need to be ready to deal with this stuff. Like with self hosted SMTP server.
Not saying it is good or bad, just reality!
- input_sh 4y ago> It’s mostly for me and friends I know personally – nothing like the bigger, public ones. I'd agree with you if it had thousands of users, but not when the user count is 8. If you have 8 users on your SMTP server, damn easy to know with certainty if any of them did anything that might be considered malicious.
- _cenw 4y agoMastodon, perhaps unwisely, replicates all media it encounters.
- literalAardvark 4y agoWell that's... terrifying.
- _cenw 4y agoIn reality, it barely makes a difference if you want to avoid hotlinking (and that has other bad privacy privacy implications, now all your users load bad content). Law enforcement makes no difference between proxying, caching and storing indefinitely. At least not during all the steps that precede your hardware being seized.
- input_sh 4y agoAgain, it's eight users, one of which has full control over the database plus an approximate timestamp when something went wrong. Super easy to check every outbound click, every post published, every post received... Everything.
- _cenw 4y agoI run a single user instance, and I definitely can't review every post received?
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- aww_dang 4y agoIs illegal content relevant to phishing warnings?
- croes 4y agoSo is google drive.