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It seems weird to me that a media organizations like the New York times doesn’t set up a mastodon server for their journalists. Governments would also be a good
by l72 2y ago
It seems weird to me that a media organizations like the New York times doesn’t set up a mastodon server for their journalists. Governments would also be a good option.
You obviously wouldn’t let people outside the organization register an account, but anyone can read, and if you want to comment or follow, sign up to any of the free federated servers.
- znkynz 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
- dumbo-octopus 2y agoIt’s a valid point. Renting servers sucks, setting up mastodon sucks. When do we see “Hosted mastodon AAS”?
- KerrAvon 2y agoIt exists: https://masto.host/ https://masto.host/
- legostormtroopr 2y agoDoesn't this defeat the purpose of decentralisation and the fediverse? Now, you've just moved everyone to hosted Mastodon, and why not make it even easier - instead of hosting multiple mastodons, just make one single mastodon everyone signs up to... and we've just reinvented Twitter.
- dumbo-octopus 2y agoYes, exactly. Every decentralized service eventually backend dominated by a small number of service access providers who are actually willing to deal with hardware.
- dumbo-octopus 2y ago*eventually becomes
- wut42 2y agoAnd even the self hosted instances are mostly in a couple of ISPs. (OVH; Hetzner; …).
- WorldMaker 2y agoIt is one of the reasons I appreciate masto.host as the owner has made it clear that signups are gated in part by how much of the fediverse it collectively hosts, because they don't want to be a central point of failure, they do want to encourage competition, and they also don't want the headaches of running that big of an instance population.
- S0y 2y agoThere's also: https://fedihost.co/ https://fedihost.co/
- dragontamer 2y agoEven if you have all the software handled, building a team of moderators who are willing to sift through all the crap and stop the child porn, cat in a blender videos, war footage, sexual harassment, upskirt crimes, etc. etc. is tough. It's not the software that's hard. It's the moderation. Pure text like Hacker News is a safe zone from this kind of crap. But multimedia sites like Twitter, Threads or BlueSky need to deal with the filthiest content and sanitize their servers. Even as their members complain about borderline not-a-child porn just a petite lady who is over 18 (yadda yadda) flame wars. Moderator teams grow tired of that bullshit. --------- Ex: it's not Twitch that's hard to make. But instead the difficult thing is effectively moderating the hot-tub meta, as streamers like to call it.
- PaulDavisThe1st 2y ago> Even if you have all the software handled, building a team of moderators who are willing to sift through all the crap and stop the child porn, cat in a blender videos, war footage, sexual harassment, upskirt crimes, etc. etc. is tough. In the context I think we're discussing, you deal with that by controlling who has accounts on the instance, not by policing posts one by one.
- dragontamer 2y agoDo you allow replies to your Mastodon instance? If so, you'll be policing the replies. And those replies can potentially be coming from across the Fediverse from other servers.
- diggan 2y ago> Pure text like Hacker News is a safe zone from this kind of crap. But multimedia sites like Twitter, Threads or BlueSky need to deal with the filthiest content and sanitize their servers I'm guessing Hacker News is safe because of the context and the small size. Other text-only forums I've moderated in the past have needed plenty of moderation for various horrible stuff that's been linked. And links we have on HN as well, but it doesn't get nowhere near as much misuse as I've seen in other text-only places.