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> 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 s
by 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 agoOk, and what if someone posts something illegal there? I don't want to monitor that server 24/7.
- CaptainFever 3y agoDo you trust your friends to not post illegal things to your server?
- rglullis 3y agoYou 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 agoI 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.