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Protecting user content and data on Lemmy in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] metawish@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I understand on a current technical side why this is not possible, but the post still has some merit in that misuse of original posts can lead to legal action.

Right now, all content posted online is generally accepted as unlicensed, free to use however one pleases, works. This was fine at the beginning, but as the internet grew, control of one's data increasingly got more difficult to control - once social media became the dominate form of communicating, it was all over.

Early blogs still have copyrights posted on them that, legally, can be enforced and respected. So if each user was able to indicated in meta data their choices, with most defaulting probably to a free license, then there is some level of control returned to the user, regardless of protocol and how things get replicated on servers.

Licenses include reproduction, and the way activitypub works can make that quite murky (its being republished on servers) but that is not all it covers.

OP, I think this is a very interesting topic to discuss, thanks for bringing it up!

I'm working on a distro recommendation flowchart/ list for newcomers and need your input please! (Post is not only this picture btw and is mainly text) in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] metawish@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

I use Zorin OS for my laptop that's gotta be at least 15+ years but still kicking it. Outlasted the newer laptop I bought that was only 5 years old.

As someone who is only mildly into tech, Zorin is certainly familiar and I would probably recommend it to people.

I downloaded Gallium OS for my mom on her Chromebook, that's perhaps another important consideration to make...what laptop someone has.

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Home Server Relocating (lemmy.ml)
 

I started self hosting with a home server last year, and had put it in a room in the house where there was an ethernet port.

Last week, me and my dad wired up the house with ethernet ports and a switch and now I want to move my home server from it's current location to a different room in the house.

Is there any sort of guidance or guide about how to properly move a server? I don't want to mess up my server since it is a repurposed old desktop. I also run Yunohost on it if that's important to know.

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Hosting Recommendations (lemmy.ml)
 

There seems to be a lot of options when it comes to companies to host with. Anyone have a favorite they'd rec to someone or companies to avoid?

Or, alternatively, anyone have recommendations for things to host? Things you're glad your self-hosting or glad you aren't self-hosting?

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Privacy Guide for Servers for the Average Person? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by metawish@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I recently started self-hosting an XMPP server for my friends and family, but when looking for privacy specific guides I can't really find any. It seems like self-hosting is the baseline way to gain privacy, and with things like Docker and Yunohost it feels within reach for average users to learn enough to do it.

I loved the phone guide that was published here and was able to follow the steps and learn more about phone privacy. So are there any good guides like that but for servers?

I know security is different from privacy, hence why I'm asking specifically for privacy-oriented guides. Thanks in advance, lemmy has always been a fantastic community for helping out newbies!

Edit: More specific questions; is there a way for me to make my host IP address not readily available (I'm hosting in my house, not a VPS), is there a better option for security than using Cloudflare (this one I'm having a hard time with mostly because I still don't quite understand what Cloudflare does?), I know some other servers say they delete messages from the server and identifying data...how? (I have metronome as the server for XMPP, using Yunohost)