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i self-host my presence but being responsible for my friend’s social media presence too is too much responsibility for me to bear if i fuck up and it goes down

i self-host my presence but being responsible for my friend’s social media presence too is too much responsibility for me to bear if i fuck up and it goes down for a day

rglullis 3y ago
- Why? It's social media, not a pacemaker alarm. Your friends will survive just fine if you have a day of downtime. - Nothing stopping the possibility of having redundancy though relays. nostr actually has this by design. If one node goes down, the service might get degraded but never interrupted. - "self-hosting" does not necessarily mean the act of hosting it yourself. One could, e.g, use a service provider like elest.io, yunohost or my own [0] to run the services. You'd still be responsible for the basic administration, but you'd have actual professional support for uptime, software maintenance, backup, etc. [0]: https://communick.com https://communick.com
- CaptainFever 3y ago
  > Why? It's social media, not a pacemaker alarm. Your friends will survive just fine if you have a day of downtime. It feels that mainstream social media has set the expectation that any downtime is big news. That’s, of course, not the case for small social media. People can handle downtime. If anyone is interested in contributing to small social media, this site is a good guide for the Fediverse side of things: http://runyourown.social/ http://runyourown.social/
  - zirgs 3y ago
    Ok, and what if someone posts something illegal there? I don't want to monitor that server 24/7.
    - CaptainFever 3y ago
      Do you trust your friends to not post illegal things to your server?
    - rglullis 3y ago
      You host only data that can be e2e encrypted. Then you don't need to monitor anything because you physically can't.
      - tredre3 3y ago
        > You host only data that can be e2e encrypted Wait, what? Aren't we talking about lemmy? The instance owner absolutely does host, in clear, all of its users' content. What am I missing?
        rglullis 3y ago
        I was talking about self-hosting in general. If you want to are talking about Lemmy in specific: you can host an instance and make it that only admins create communities. This way, your server will not be hosting any files.

i self-host my presence but being responsible for my friend’s social media presence too is too much responsibility for me to bear if i fuck up and it goes down for a day

rglullis 3y ago

- Why? It's social media, not a pacemaker alarm. Your friends will survive just fine if you have a day of downtime. - Nothing stopping the possibility of having redundancy though relays. nostr actually has this by design. If one node goes down, the service might get degraded but never interrupted. - "self-hosting" does not necessarily mean the act of hosting it yourself. One could, e.g, use a service provider like elest.io, yunohost or my own [0] to run the services. You'd still be responsible for the basic administration, but you'd have actual professional support for uptime, software maintenance, backup, etc. [0]: https://communick.com https://communick.com

CaptainFever 3y ago
> Why? It's social media, not a pacemaker alarm. Your friends will survive just fine if you have a day of downtime. It feels that mainstream social media has set the expectation that any downtime is big news. That’s, of course, not the case for small social media. People can handle downtime. If anyone is interested in contributing to small social media, this site is a good guide for the Fediverse side of things: http://runyourown.social/ http://runyourown.social/
- zirgs 3y ago
  Ok, and what if someone posts something illegal there? I don't want to monitor that server 24/7.
  - CaptainFever 3y ago
    Do you trust your friends to not post illegal things to your server?
  - rglullis 3y ago
    You host only data that can be e2e encrypted. Then you don't need to monitor anything because you physically can't.
    - tredre3 3y ago
      > You host only data that can be e2e encrypted Wait, what? Aren't we talking about lemmy? The instance owner absolutely does host, in clear, all of its users' content. What am I missing?
      - rglullis 3y ago
        I was talking about self-hosting in general. If you want to are talking about Lemmy in specific: you can host an instance and make it that only admins create communities. This way, your server will not be hosting any files.