Are there any paid services for either Lemmy or Mastodon? Something where, given it is a subscription service, you would expect them to stick around long-term?

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[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Second this. And other instances would still be accessible. Even more so since lemmy.world (along with probably some others) is starting censorship, which wouldn't affect you, since you decide what you can see.

[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd love to self host one for everyone but not allow communities. The idea would be that I federate with everyone no matter what and leave a what the user wants to sub to up to them. No censorship at all.

Not having communities would mean I don't have to worry about what I host and have other instances defederate with me. Plus, I have no interest in being mod, dealing with DCMA,user reports, etc.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can disable communities on your instance as an admin, but you would need to disable uploading.

[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Would that allow someone to still post/upload on other communities? Honestly haven't looked into this at all. Was going to in a couple weeks when I have time to actually sit down and test

[–] quicksand@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Commenting because I'm also interested

[–] skadden@ctrlaltelite.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Yes it works

[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I finally look into it I'll make sure to let you know. Are you going to selfhist yourself or just want to use it if I actually set it up? Maybe you can help me host it. Lol

[–] quicksand@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If you let me know how to help you, then I'm in. I have a raspberry pi 4 and some external hard drives. That's it. But I also have some money and would rather help you than host a lonely instance, Mr skankhunt

[–] skadden@ctrlaltelite.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yep. My instance just has me on it and posting elsewhere works without issue. Anything I upload goes to my instance and federates out. It's really quite great not having to worry about the instance drama when big ones defederate from each other. I also turned off NSFW so I don't have to worry about any of that content (legal or otherwise) even hitting my server.

Here's an image of me making this comment via Sync for Lemmy

Edit: I have community creation locked down to admins, which everything disables them on my instance.

[–] daq@lemmy.daqfx.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did the same thing for the same reason. Admin approval for everything and I'm the only admin. Basically a personal instance for me and my friends if they're too lazy to host but want to try Lemmy.

[–] skadden@ctrlaltelite.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. I went one step further and decided not to use my admin account as my main. I don't run around as root on servers so I try not to do that with apps. It's easier with Lemmy because once it's set up all the admin tasks hit my email.

I also wanted to avoid that vulnerability that hit Lemmy World a few weeks ago that was only possible because the server admin got their jwt stolen, which wouldn't have been so impactful if they weren't on the admin account.

[–] daq@lemmy.daqfx.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't read the story about how exactly he lost the jwt, but is it still as big of an issue since 2fa was introduced?

I guess existing jwt hashes will bypass 2fa, but I'm not super worried since my instance has 3 users.

[–] skadden@ctrlaltelite.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

2fa was in at the time. IIRC the jwt was granted after 2fa so it didn't matter.

You've got a point though, small instances aren't gonna be nearly as useful as a giant one to threat actors. Assuming you don't give them a reason to go after you specifically they wouldn't have a reason to target such a tiny server.

Still though, I don't need that shiny A next to my name so I'm good with how I have it set up.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 year ago

If a user from your instance posts to a community and wants to upload a file, that file will be saved to your instance. Not the instance in which the community is. Keep that in mind.