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Jérémie Zimmermann🎶💗🧀🫖5946 Apr 14, 2017

So what happens when users trust the admin of an instance for their personal data (DM mostly), and that admin, because either the instance is growing fast or he doesn't know otherwise, uses big centralized "cloud" services like amazonaws, cloudflare, etc. with servers under US jurisdiction? Some users may not even get to know about it?

Should that be part of the "score" of various instances?

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Mathieu [bochecha]Apr 14, 2017

@jz Certainly that could be written explicitly on the /about/more page?

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Mathieu [bochecha]Apr 14, 2017

@jz I'd love to know where are the mstdn.fr servers for example.

Not that I don't trust them, on the contrary!

But when you do things right, you should let others know about it @taziden ;)

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Guillaume Subiron Apr 14, 2017

@taziden @jz @mathieu our server is a Dedibox MD 2016 hosted in France by Online.net. Currently everything is on this server. Backups are done both localy in the same datacenter, and on a remote NAS in our office, in France. So everything is hosted in France. Please do not hesitate to ask any question :-)

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Jérémie Zimmermann🎶💗🧀🫖5946

@maethor @taziden @mathieu
The thing is, if you have to be aware of these questions, ask yourself, be connected to mastodon (ie. logged in on an instance already), know the name of your admin, ask the admin, etc.. people won't get to start to know about these questions soon... :/

Maybe some form for the instance admin could ask them in a friendly way to fill in answers to specific questions that would then automatically be displayed on /about?