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Citation highly needed. I'm close to quite a few people who run larger instances than that, including my own, and none of them have ever told me about getting s
by kstrauser 2y ago
Citation highly needed. I'm close to quite a few people who run larger instances than that, including my own, and none of them have ever told me about getting subpoenaed. That's exactly the kind of war story we'd tell each other, too.
I've seen no evidence that running a fediverse server is nearly so legally fraught.
- OgsyedIE 2y agoI'll go looking for the citation and it may take a couple hours but I'll point out that FWIW my info is drawn from some academic surveying vBulletin and Xenforo site owners in the 2010s so I wouldn't be surprised if they aren't applicable anymore.
- OgsyedIE 2y agoUpdate: My apologies. I've totally confabulated old blog posts from Antone Johnson with TSPA articles and some Steven Myers papers. The actual figure is a median of 1 subpoena per annum per 430k users if the majority of the users are under 30.
- kstrauser 2y agoNo problem. I thought that seemed on the high side but didn’t have any stats to counter with. Which paper does 430k come from? I’d like to squirrel that away for later.
- immibis 2y agoNote that getting a subpoena isn't "legally fraught". You're being called on to assist in an investigation of someone else, not in trouble yourself.
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