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Having worked in the tech legal and compliance, privacy, and security spaces for a very long time the idea of letting thousands of strangers upload binary files
by TX81Z 3y ago
Having worked in the tech legal and compliance, privacy, and security spaces for a very long time the idea of letting thousands of strangers upload binary files to a server I’m legally liable for is terrifying.
- brightlancer 3y agoEven "text" files can be encoded binary files -- it was a big shift in USENET. I had a heated discussion with some Nostr advocates who thought that by calling servers "avocados" or something, then they wouldn't be responsible for what users posted on the "avocados". I've not looked into ActivityPub or the Fediverse enough to know what is hosted locally and would (not) be protected by Sec 230, but it might drive some centralization toward corporations or other accountable organizations.
- TX81Z 3y agobase64 is a helluva drug.
- dragontamer 3y agoIn practice, I think only the NSFW Lemmy's have to be worried. This isn't straight binary file hosting. Its just text, image, and video. Images/Video can get into trouble but if you have a Safe-for-work only policy and defederate from NSFW instances, you're probably in the clear? And I'm pretty sure any large amount of data is going to be throttled. So not even "big" videos are going to be hosted, more like a few-second .mp4 memes at best.