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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[–] 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.