I am wanting to self host a fediverse instance. I don’t hope to make it big. Hoping for 200 users at most, and I won’t advertise it heavily so it’ll probably be a while before it gets there.
Is it a bad idea to host something like this on local hardware at home? I have a lot of local-only self hosted services, and I wouldn’t want those to be compromised.
But my biggest fear is overloading my network. I already don’t get the fastest signal in some parts of my house, and I am worried the extra traffic might put more pressure on the network.
What are your thoughts on hosting local? Should I just avoid the headache and host on public instance?
I understand this policy of needing to report them to official authorities is a new thing they now added out of fear of losing their grip of control on social media when people swarm to private instances.
My standards however will always remain on “No government has any business in private stuff.” Just like everybody follows default trafficlaws on private parkings, but in reality they are just rules of the owner and unless you do damage the police can’t do anything for driving wrongly on them. Same goes inside a store. Government has no say in how internals are handled and will only be allowed to note damage and allow the owner to press charges, if they so chose. I’m just drawing that basic right further to everything, including any privately setup software.
I kinda also feel that if I have to go and involve government authorities, it takes away a large basic reason to even go private. I’m not paying servercosts to still having to deal with government [insert bad word here]…
Governments can suck it and I’ll just deal with my own issues. There is absolutely no way in hell I’m going to voluntarily contact any government [insert different bad word here] for things I am doing in private. They can go stand on their heads for all I care…
NB: This is in no way an attack towards you or what you commented, voting it up even cause you were very helpful and I do agree in general it’s best to give the legals and leave it up to people to choose to follow that or not, I just needed to get this frustration about government control in private setups off my chest… 😅
I never thought I’d see someone openly admit, even advocate, that they’re willing to host child sexual assault material on hardware they own. That’s a sad hill to die on.
I don’t really care about anything else you’ve written to justify your blanket standards either. All it takes is one example (CSAM) to show the depravity of your standards.
I’m all about privacy, even so far as to emigrate from the US to a country in the EU for privacy. But I have compassion and empathy and am also aware of ethical behavior, morality, and decency.
Privacy is not more valuable than protecting innocent human lives. If you can’t see that, you are lost. I’m sorry.