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This still baffles me, but I guess it's good for federation? (i.imgflip.com)
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[–] lemmy 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy.world does a great job(with a little downtime) and it is the same software we are hosting, so I can only see a couple of ways to make a better "offering"

  1. Better uptime as you mentioned
  2. Different deferation/moderation policy.
  3. Visual customizations(eg. different theme)

I try to provide a better uptime and a different deferation/moderation policy. I don't have the skills to make visual customizations, but I have added multiple frontends(like lemmy.world).

I'm open to suggestions/ideas if there is anything else that could be done to improve the "offering".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

so I can only see a couple of ways to make a better “offering”

(2.) mostly covers pretty much anyone one would want to do, offer-wise. It's also the aspect that's currently the most distinguishable across the instances marketplace. But the issue is, it's one thing to say that you are going to offer a different defederation / moderation policy ("we're going to allow piracy", for example) and another thing is sticking to it (", unless some legal threat"). If what you are saying is "I'm not gonna block piracy until it's somehow inconvenient for me", not only is that the same flat offering most of everyone else is making, but it's also a nebulous offering because it tells a new user nothing useful and offers no commitments: When is that "inconvenient" gonna be? What is the measure for "inconvenient"? What's gonna happen then? How will we know? (no, suddenly finding that the instance you had an account on now redirects to the FBI is not good enough).

I’m open to suggestions/ideas if there is anything else that could be done to improve the “offering”.

Add more qualifications to your offering, such as:

  • Are you going to close upon any legal threat, or only upon a certain degree or size of threat?
  • From the US only, or from any country?
  • Will you close instantly, or will you guarantee a Minimum Survivability Timeframe for eg.: helping users to migrate away, like Mastodon's covenant does?

but I have added multiple frontends(like lemmy.world).

If you add the JS-less frontends, you, like others who are doing it, are doing Yahweh / Arceus / Allah / Amaterasu 's work.

[–] lemmy 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for clarifying(and sorry for the late answer).

For you (and anyone interested) I will answer the questions you asked.

Are you going to close upon any legal threat, or only upon a certain degree or size of threat?

If the legal threat is real(they have a real chance to win in a court) and there is nothing I could do(come to an agreement, move the hosting to another server etc), then I would close the server.

From the US only, or from any country?

Server is hosted in Germany

Will you close instantly, or will you guarantee a Minimum Survivability Timeframe for eg.: helping users to migrate away, like Mastodon’s covenant does?

As long as there aren't fines for keeping the website up or I get arrested, I would give a notice, so users can move to another server.