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@markwyner @deirdrebeth

It's very interesting, as a lay person considering hosting an activity-pub based server and allowing open sign-ups, it felt to me like they were trying to hedge against the fact that once something's published online, especially via a federated publishing network, the publisher doesn't have a legally meaningful (to my mind, but I am not a judge) mechanism to reliably unpublished it from the internet. As I read it, they seemed to be asking the user to agree that all parties understood and accepted this.

I could be wrong, of course, and I'm sure the author of your link would say I am (under their subheading "What about federation?" where they seem to think what I describe is handled implicitly, and that's fine for all parties), but nevertheless it's food for thought for me, in how I might compose/adjust a ToS agreement. Thank you for sharing it.

Weg von Google Drive, Dropbox & Co.: Online-Services selbst hosten | c’t uplink

Warum nicht Dienste selber betreiben, statt eigene Daten den Tech-Konzernen anzuvertrauen? Wie man sich aus der Abhängigkeit löst, erklären wir im c’t uplink.

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heise online · Weg von Google Drive, Dropbox & Co.: Online-Services selbst hosten | c’t uplinkBy Keywan Tonekaboni
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@StarkRG +9001%

I think the only "legitimate reason" of any #aas / #AsAService offering is when it's an optional upsell like some #hosting or #support contract that incurs real, obvious and tangible costs just to be able to facilitate them by virtue of requiring personnel and/or infrastructure.

I am considering hosting my own #nextcloud instance, for starters somewhere in the cloud. Any suggestions for a provider? Ideally, cheap, hacker friendly, a small instance for family use. Ideally I should be able to migrate to an in-house hardware eventually, so the provider should offer access to database dump.

Suggestions? #hosting

Unsere PeerTube Hosting Beta neigt sich langsam aber sicher dem Ende zu - bald geht's dann auch im offiziellen Hosting los! 😊

An dieser Stelle schon einmal vielen Dank für alle helfenden Hände und das ehrliche Feedback! ❤️

Was ist PeerTube? Ganz einfach: Deine eigene, föderierte Videoplattform – ganz ohne Nutzerdatenanalyse, Werbung oder unnötigen Schnickschnack, aber mit jeder Menge Features und voller Kontrolle über deine Inhalte.

Jeff Geerling got the brunt of YouTube wrath when he showed people how to host their own media {media that they legally own, which means that they either have the originals, or have paid for whatever digital version they have} with the power of Open Source tools
Jeff explicitly made sure that he never ever told people how to circumvent subscriptions or worse. Nothing that could harm YouTube bottomline was ever discussed in this video.

Yet for reasons obvious to Open Source people like me YouTube gave him his second strike.

3rd Strike and you're gone. This is how Google / this is how Alphabet is treating their Golden Geeze.

Creators like Jeff are very valuable both to the people who follow them and to YouTube. However Google seems to be at Super odds with Open Source, needing it to run their data centers but hating it because they have to share the code again that they've worked upon.

Google is a paradoxical Company which is being controlled by Alphabet, a schizophrenic Entity drunk on power Ads and control

To me you're a star @geerlingguy keep Shining

jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/sel

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I have finished detached my personal domains from Cloudflare, migrating DNS hosting back to the domain registrar.

The Wait Wait Stats Project sites and the domain have also been detached from Cloudflare, DNS hosting migrated to the domain registrar, and now waiting for the subscription to expire.

So far, fronting the two Wait Wait Stats Project web servers with an NGINX caching proxy has met my needs to handling spikes in traffic (as it did during and after last week's Wait Wait taping in Boston, MA).

There are still things I need to tune re: caching duration, rules and what-not.