Jérémie Zimmermann🎶💗🧀🫖5946Apr 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?

Show threadMathieu [bochecha]Apr 14, 2017
@jz Certainly that could be written explicitly on the /about/more page?
Show threadMathieu [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 ;)

Show threadGuillaume SubironApr 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 :-)
Show threadGuillaume SubironApr 14, 2017
@mathieu @jz @taziden Additionnally we don't use object storage. Bu we plan to migrate on object storage with a Minio hosted on the same dedicated server. Later we plan to scale by adding some Dedibox LT 2016, (or maybe some Classic 2016).
Show threadGuillaume SubironApr 14, 2017
@taziden @jz @mathieu Finally, I think the concentration of instances on Online.net servers (both Dedibox and Scaleway, like mastodon.social) could be problematic, but will disolve when the network will grow. We chose Online.net because we are working everyday on tens of Dedibox and we think it's by far the best quality/price ratio on the low cost market.
Show threadGuillaume Subiron
@mathieu @jz @taziden We are taking note of the idea and will communicate more openly about it on the about page. Thank you @mathieu :-)
Apr 14, 2017 at 8:31pmWeb