Then you get things like the platform you’re on where in my case it resides in my house and lets me be that big scary admin/mod. Having the ability to purge bad content and actors from a central space is needed for anyone but the most thick skinned masochists to use a platform.
Plenty of people just want to go talk/post without wading through a swamp of the crap that one uncle brings up at Thanksgiving on a regular basis.
The system formerly known as Freenet has a module known as the web of trust that uses a similar model. It’s interesting but runs into a problem of forcing users/hosts to propagate content and messaging they don’t wish to be associated with.
There’s a reason places like gab or hexbear end up isolated islands, the general population has no desire to be preached to be the lunatic fringes.
Last I ever was hearing this pushed around the fedi the big ‘sell’ was that mods/admins can’t delete posts making it a ‘freeze peach’ platform.
The only people typically drawn to those are the people who tend to get banned for being intolerable on civilized platforms.
Has worked well for me, but keeping in mind that email is probably about the hardest thing to properly self host.
DMARC/DKIM/SPF/MX records have to be set up properly, DNS for auto config and such preferable, and dealing with a myriad of mail IP blacklists (good monitoring service for free: https://mxtoolbox.com/) all come into play.
Depends on a few things. If you actually put the site ‘through’ cloudflare then they act as a SSL offloading proxy and could read the content.
If they’re just providing a DNS record than no, that just points people in your direction.
It took a selfie, proof of extra terrestrial devices on Mars!
It can make a big difference just in the processing power needed if there’s anything more intense than a straight firewall. IPS tend to be a resource pig. What are the load numbers saying vs the number of CPU cores available?
I ran into similar (or even worse) choking trying to get it virtualized even with a proper passthrough that I eventually shelved but might take another run at someday. Knocking a couple hundred watts off the stack is always welcome.
In itself true, but if you have several competing distros then you run into the problem of attracting developers to the platform if none have a solid market share. It’s a bit of a chicken and egg thing, if a platform doesn’t have a sizable user base it’s hard to attract developers and it’s hard to get a user base without readily available apps.
Linux on phones or desktops suffer from one major problem as I see it, too much choice.
You make a Windows app it has to work with the latest couple versions, same with Mac.
Make one for Linux and you have to test it against dozens of popular distros, package it in multiple ways, and hope the dependencies are gonna match.
It’s an awesome system for IT people and server admins, but for the end user, ehhh… That seems to be the problem things like snap and flat packs are aimed at fixing, which could transition to phones but first you gotta herd the cats into an agreed state.
I have one around that same class that is running Security Onion, because why not record and analyze all the things.
Depends a lot on budget, space, and electricity costs. Going to ‘overkill’ level once can save a lot of these issues down the line.
Mine started similarly, some small box with a couple drives that got up sized and then moved to another to add more…
Eventually I bought a used 2U box with 14 bays and set it up with a ZFS pool all made up of mirrored disk pairs and auto snapshots so it can have a drive fail without issue and go back 2 weeks if something gets oops deleted.
Downside, now the whole lab uses about 700 watts continually so the power bill is kinda nuts.
Seems not that long ago that it was a huge deal they where heading to $1T
Then there are those who ask to expand the Holocaust and increase the throughput that disengaged people indirectly support by not arguing/voting against their wishes at least.
And the Internet comes to a halt as every company around fights to develop an install base with the span of the current major players.
Not that I’m a fan of the mass surveillance system our current internet entails, but having a major influx of less technically competent companies creating their own networks and site plugins is just asking for an even more chaotic security landscape.
I think I can see where they’re going with it, but it is a bit hard to write out
Say I set up my favorite service in house, and said service has a client app. If I create my own DNS at home and point the client to the entry, and the service is running an encrypted connection with a self signed cert it can give the client app fits for being untrusted.
Compare that to putting NPM in front of the app, using it to get a LetsEncrypt cert using the DNS record option (no need to have LE reach the service publicly) and now you have a trusted cert signed by a public CA for the client app to connect to.
I actually do the same for a couple internal things that I want the local traffic secured because I don’t want creds to be sniffable on the wire, but they’re not public facing. I already have a domain for other public things so it doesn’t cost anything extra to do it this way.
This settlement might help because Trump has directed one $22 million payment YouTube will make to the body overseeing his pet project – construction of a ballroom at the White House. Another $2.5 million payment will go to plaintiffs who joined the case and also felt YouTube infringed their rights.
A true man of the people, a couple scraps for however many may have felt their ‘rights’ to spout their conspiracies in YouTube where infringed, and 10X that for a fancy room for rich people to party in and plan how to become richer.
I was probably using Emby already by then, had bought a lifetime license since it didn’t require bouncing things off and outside server like Plex did (or was it that Plex was a renewing subscription, I forget) , so it just stayed out of inertia.
I can’t say I’ve given Jellyfin a proper try (as in using it and the clients exclusively for a long period) but we have been using Emby for quite a while before I knew it existed.
If I’m not mistaken Jellyfin is actually a fork of Emby so they’re pretty similar, but one is a bit older.
Many places refer to secure email when they mean a portal that function is more like a private chat app. A lot of them are even sold as ‘secure mail’ but don’t use anything resembling SMTP.
Instead you log into a page, and send a message to the specified recipient who might have an email style address on it, or maybe on the backend it uses their email system for authentication even.
Sooo, they act as an admin and can assign mods instead of using someone else’s node and being a mod?
Aside from what I understand as an inability to actually remove bad content that gets in, how does that differ from something like hosting a fedi site?