The reason to host your own instances is altruism. You help out the community with decentralisation and also absorb some of the bandwidth and storage costs from other instances. This is necessary for the Fediverse to survive.
In your own comment you mentioned making it harder for the general public. If you think your comments might have had any value for anyone looking for answers, well now they can't read any of your material, through no fault of their own. All the while Meta, OpenAI and Google strike back-handed deals with Reddit to steal your data.
In the end, you're hurting the innocent internet user whilst not doing anything against the big giants. Do you truly not see the problem?
Case in point, you assumed anyone's only possible threat would be Reddit, without considering it could be random jackasses.
I don't understand. Unless someone posts private information on Reddit, how is Reddit part of their threat model? And posting such information on a capital-hungry platform means they have already given up their privacy to data brokers willingly. Sure maybe the script kiddie won't be able to scrape your SSN from the internet but is that really the solace you're looking for?
As to your final line: yes, a lack of content on Reddit will move people to alternate platforms. But there's still A LOT OF CONTENT that is not present on Lemmy, Kbin, Mastodon etc and if everybody starts acting like you then all of that knowledge will be lost. At this point, if your comments held any value for the general public, all you've done is deprive the average lurker. Is that what you want?
That makes it harder for people who might have benefitted from your solutions, but doesn't do anything to prevent Reddit or OpenAI from accessing them. I don't see a point
Thanks. I don't see the content of the blogs in the feed, just the title - but maybe that's a problem with my reader (I use Capy on Android). I'll try a couple of other readers to see if it works
Coming back to this thread, I do think some of your comments were inflammatory. If you were to receive a ban, it should have been for trying to bring fights in the comments (but even that is ambiguous at best). I agree that the ban for a comment was too much. An admin shouldn't be conflating one such action with overall behaviour. As for "repeated bad-faith behaviour", it is not so far out to ban you I think. People should be responsible for their own actions.
I went through the list. Google and FairPhone should definitely be moved to "Safe for now" whilst OnePlus should be moved to "Requires an online account/sacrifice" as they limited their unbrick utility which means no more custom ROMs for new OnePlus phones.
I honestly don't understand why Chinese companies do this. They would fare much better against their American counterparts (including Samsung) if they allowed for more open hardware. Goes to show that MBAs at the top of these companies have utter dung between their ears
Thank you for the comment. Definitely looks like there's some interest in hardening Void, with that said most of the kernel protections that I see from your checksec output exist on my Debian system too. I will try it out in a VM then.
Yes, just thought if you could check that the correct ports are opened. I.e. is port 443 open for NGINX on Unraid? Is NGINX forwarding traffic to the correct port to your backend? Is the backend configured to allow traffic on a certain domain/all domains if it is handling HTTPS?
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