Trojan HamFBI Seizure of Mastodon Server is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users
I Cast Fist- Step 1: Don’t host in the USA
- Step 2: Don’t host in a USA puppet ally
insomniacProbably good advice but not exactly relevant. The person was hosting a server in their house and got raided for unrelated reasons and all their electronics were seized. Had they hosted in a data center or at least had off premises back ups, this wouldn’t have happened.
JohnDClayI thought one of the points of the fediverse was to not be centralized in data centers that are more easily controlled. It’s supposedly supposed to be easy and relatively cheap to spin up your own instance on your own hardware. Just outsourcing to a data center I think goes against what the fediverse promised.
Like anything, it’s a trade off. The fact that you can do whatever you want is the good thing. As long as everyone isn’t in the same datacenter, it’s fine. There’s datacenters all over the planet.
If you’re self hosting, you can mitigate the risks by having some kind of contingency plan though. Just having backups in another location would have made it possible to get back up after the interruption. Now, this instance is probably just screwed.
Data centers aren’t inherently bad and neither is self hosting. But there’s different risks that need to be planned for.
If you’re self hosting, you can mitigate the risks by having some kind of contingency plan
Like a degaussing loop hidden in the door frame?
Just having backups in another location would have made it possible to get back up after the interruption
Oh. Not that kind of contingency plan
Arael15thLike a degaussing loop hidden in the door frame?
I deeply enjoy that your mind has a rail for this train of thought to run on
PapstJL4UFediverse does not use magic. They are bound cabels and cpu.
In average any datacenter wil have a better connection to everywhere else.
I disagree.
It’s about control of the platform. A datacenter isn’t going to start making administrative decisions about the “business direction” of your instance. They can shut the server down, but so could a thunderstorm on a home server.
Even if the data center did (for whatever reason) administrate an instance, the idea of federation still holds because users get to decide if they like the decisions being made - regardless of who is making them.
As an American, feel free to just mute us. Watch the slow motion collapse from a distance.
I have dreamed about the ability to do this for so long. Cut US communications off and prohibit travel in/out. You can come out in 100 years when you’re ready to play nice.
Unfortunately, good old Uncle Sam may take offense at that, and his six-shooter contains somewhere on the order of a few thousand thermonuclear weapons, which he’s already used, twice. He’s also not afraid of ignoring national sovereignty and borders when it’s in his interests.
Not saying this is a good thing by any means, and sorry for raining on your parade, but the situation is what it is. Hopefully sometime in the next few decades, if not sooner, some kind of change for the better can be made. Who knows?
Sorry to be a pedant but we used two atomic bombs, not thermonuclear ones. Encyclopaedia Britannica
Thermonuclear bomb | History, Principle, Diagram, Yield, Effects, & Facts
Thermonuclear bomb, weapon whose explosive power results from an uncontrolled self-sustaining chain reaction in which isotopes of hydrogen combine under high temperatures to form helium in a process known as nuclear fusion. The temperatures required for the reaction are produced by the detonation of an atomic bomb.
If this happened, the first Americans to land in Paris in 100 years time would be greeted with “Privyet”.
Lemmy: please do no use the term “Chinese shills as this is sinophobic.”
Also Lemmy:
This is exactly why I only host on DefinitelyNotAHoneypot.sk. everyone knows that the CIA can’t run colo services in Slovakia.