did not know that the serde developer tolnay is a military apologist. I’m disgusted. serde is a very good tool… I’ll think about what to do about this. such a shame…

how did tou migrate your existing accounts to this system? or did you just make a new account from scratch?

most fediverse software does not collect precise geolocation though, which is why this point was brought up

unless another federated instances synced them

I don’t think the homeserver tries to fetch media remotely that was local but since deleted

we often talk about how discord is a black hole of information, but this is worse than that

Eh, if it’s an open-source application where you can review the code to confirm that the software isn’t tracking you, then it’s not an issue.

you can’t review what’s running on the actual server, what did your local admin add to it.

are the media files redownloaded from other servers when someone tries to load them? I guess all local media is lost forever, but maybe not remote ones

Make regular backups of the DB.

tbh that should apply to any kind of selfhosted service, especially when its not only for you

I don’t know, I would not recommend kubernetes to most people not already familiar with it, but especially to beginners. It’s too many moving parts, and fir most selfhosted setups, its capabilities are not needed I think.

ok, but who is the target audience for that? I am interested now

it was just a joke, to the “one more dashboard” part :D its fine

soo… servers your router doesn’t like for whatever reason blocked for everyone else? with gov ID checks? why would we want that?

and how is this a dashboard idea?

wonderful! now somebody needs to rewrite this in Rust and we are done!

A time limit after disasters would be necessary. It’s difficult to think of a proper time limit though, as even a month might not be enough time if your entire house burns down.

and also accounting for low bandwidth connections… whats more, some shitty providers even have monthly data caps

Maybe a payment system could be set up to where, if your server doesn’t ping for a week, your credit card is automatically charged (after pinging you with many emails).

yeah, that would be almost a necessary feature. being able to hold on to the backup when you really can’t restore.

such a system would need a strict time limit for restoration after the catastrophe. Otherwise leeching would be too easy.

better would be something that can just eat a zfs send stream, but I guess for an emergency it’s fine. but I would still want to encrypt everything somehow.

the images are not loading for us, maybe it’s because of the maintenance mode?

but wouldn’t you also need to verify the matrix/signal contact? both of them gives you the option to verify the other, but its very rarely used by people. so, you need either an already verified secure channel, or meeting on the street.

but then again we don’t actually know each other. so if we meet, how would you know it’s actually me, and not someone impersonating me?

yes but these stats highlight those that are only participating or creating heated debates. users that are consistently downvoted, but also users who are giving lots of downvotes

a firewall can be used to filter incoming traffic by its properties. most consumer home routers don’t expose the firewall settings

as I understand it does not hide negatively voted comments. these are stats, for to moderators, for helping moderation decisions. It’s not automatic.