manitcor

yes

def a function of volume, smaller instances are not seeing this particular error

theres apparently some bots running around posting from it as well, may or may not be causing extra load

thats up to you, there are no laws against spam and as long as they are posting within the bounds of the law you have no issues. HOWEVER if your user is being annoying, breaking rules, or posting content that other instances don’t want to see it could get your server defederated.

really though, most of these are issuse if you want a big instance, if you keep it small and the rules clear, you are unlikely to deal with this and when you do it will usually be a matter of clicking Ban then Purge.

just sync things.

depends on where you are, if you are in the US you are still generally protected from prosecution (check your laws or talk to a lawyer). You do need to have a process for removing bad content (just deleting it) and be prepared to ban and purge content if you receive any legal notices.

also something to note, your server does not copy everything on the fediverse, just what users on your instance have subscribed to. Im looking forward to being able to block communities as an admin rather than simply defederating.

re: moderation load. I like topical servers, I run one around AI. I’ve always felt specific topic verticals are easier to moderate as its usually more expected to just shutdown anything not related to the core topic. You still deal with stuff from time to time but its never been a huge deal.

Running stuff here, my server is SFW so I have rarely seen anything terrible, I usually just ban and purge a user i see posting like that it only takes a couple seconds. If you are only subbing to safe, respectful communities its easy. If you want to walk lines, it can get hard.

all else fails

COPY/PASTE title with ARCHIVE as a the heading in the body.

that is my thinking, I also mainly post about tech and often research or FOSS, so there is very little I feel I can’t at least archive. When it comes to more creative work, id try to avoid bringing it over. Still kind of not sure about stuff like personal finance advice.

All that said, when it comes to text, its now trivial to re-write it.

depends, a lot of whats on reddit came from elsewhere, sometimes from years before. I dont feel any need to credit reddit for anything like that I grab, if its new and a post unique to the site, I bring it over as an ARCHIVE and link it.

Step 1 is to run an instance, step 2 is to engage across multiple instances using your instance account, step 3 partner with other servers, post on groups, basically advertise, step 4 SEO things.

Also, every chance I get i advocate for people to find smaller instances they like and not to overload whats popular or big as there is little advantage to it.

I expect growth to be similar to every other forum ive ever run, so far federation has made it a bit easier i think to get noticed.

id like more options at the admin and user level. defederation should be seen as a last-resort move, there should be all kinds of ways to filter communities and let users ultimately control thier views while letting the admin ensure they aren’t harboring undesirable content in thier jurisdiction.

there will always be an issue with people manipulating the data but thats when you get into wholesale defed imo.

the admin can purge your account

there will be updates to help with scaling, but also in general we should be trending to smaller home instances and working to integrate meta-community features IMO. Its generally easy and affordable to run a server for oneself and a couple thousand users. Its when you grow well beyond these scales that things become an issue.

There is not a ton of value to being on a large instance, esp as the federation code gets smoothed out.

i think we have seen how algorithms divide us in a lot of ways, esp when we are unaware of the way they work and how they are altering our feeds.

small and private instances are the key

this is the process i have observed with setting up my own instance along with helping a number of people with theirs having the same issue in the matrix channel.

the api has a call called get_posts you would need to call it on the instance the community is on. I don’t think anyone has a proper archive sync tool and if one arrived i suspect some discussion around how it could hammer an instance.

if the server has not synced it before then it starts at the time of the first sync. there is no concept of syncing archives in this protocol though the API does support it IIRC

i’ve also been a fan of low bar initial logins then ramping the user into higher forms of auth as they engage with a platform more.

might turn off registration until then. bots can answer emails.

did they manage to get captcha in?