The EFF had a handy explainer a couple of years ago on basically that subject:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer

Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM): Service providers are required to report any CSAM on their servers to the CyberTipline operated by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), a private, nonprofit organization established by the U.S. Congress, and can be criminally prosecuted for knowingly facilitating its distribution. NCMEC shares those reports with law enforcement. However, you are not required to affirmatively monitor your instance for CSAM.

By my understanding, you don’t have to setup proactive monitoring for CSAM being federated in, but if you specifically spot CSAM or it is reported to you then you are legally obligated to report it

Oh so it’s a compatibility triangle of C being compatible with A makes it incompatible with B? Sounds like a mess for sure

Maybe I’m just not awake enough but I’m not entirely following exactly what’s going on. Can you give me a quick summary?

I’d argue that for a small business a static site might be better unless it’s a managed Drupal/WordPress instance. Too much involved in hosting a public-facing website, CMS and database for most small business operators. They just want to set it and forget it at minimal cost to them (including the cost of time)

It certainly didn’t take long to spot servers like that on fedidb! I wonder what is causing people to make those? Load testing? Spam farm? Social experiment to see if people will sign up to an empty instance? Trying to setup an automated simulated social network like people joked reddit was where everyone is a bot except for you?

I think the most realistic answer is that they’re test instances either by a tech company that believes they have a path to monetize a fediverse project or by some kind of spam farm, but the lack of any posts is still positively weird

One of the most interesting aspects of historic preservation of anything is that it’s an extremely new concept. The modern view of it is about a single lifetime old, dating back to the early 20th century. Historic structures were nothing but old buildings and would be torn down with the materials repurposed as soon as there was a better use for the land or materials. Most historic buildings that date to the 19th century and earlier are standing not because people invested significant time and money into maintaining a historic structure as it originally was but because people were continuing to live, work, socialize or worship in the structure.

Preservation is entering a very interesting new phase right now particularly in transportation preservation as many of the vehicles in preservation have now spent significantly longer in preservation than they did in active service. There are locomotives that were preserved in the 50s and 60s who’s early days of preservation are themselves a matter of their history. There are new-built replicas of locomotives from a hundred years earlier that are now a hundred years old. In railroad preservation there’s also now the challenge of steam locomotives being so old and so costly to maintain that some museums are turning to building brand new locomotives based on original blueprints

We also need a way to decouple everyone’s personal info from publicly available information about them, keeping in mind that not all publicly available information is intended to be that way.

Here’s a crazy idea, what if the personal information becomes publicly available something like a century or two after their death? How cool would genealogy be if you could go through and know more about these vague people from 2 centuries ago than just “this is bob, he was born on this date, married on this date, had kids on these dates and died on this date. Oh and here’s a single photo that could easily have been misidentified”

It dropped by about 2000 comments per minute and about 100-200 posts per minute. Assuming weekend peaks are about the same as weekday peaks that’s a pretty significant reduction of thousands of posts not posted and tens if not hundreds of thousands of comments never commented. That’s a fairly significant dent and could drop a stock price by a few percent, but certainly not a company killer.

The long term question is if this exodus removes too many power users who drive engagement, not to mention the effects on moderation and how reddit replaces or recalls the users it alienated

Pretty sure that’s exactly what IPFS is, it’s a distributed filesystem, although it’s also a Blockchain-based technology so it comes with that baggage

Firefox’s desktop mode is actually plenty for even the most greedy of sites

The mobile browser that works better than their official app at that!

It also annoys me that if you click the “open in app” button it’s hard coded to take you to the official app and not just the installed reddit app (I have the redreader configured as my default which is handy should a website land me on Reddit unexpectedly)

I’m just pleasantly surprised it lasted as long as it did. I was certain old.reddit would be shut down years ago

I predict it’ll be like the Twitter debacle at the end of lady year. It’ll lead to a big migration to the fediverse but many will cling onto the platform as it circles the drain. Maybe Reddit and/or Twitter will manage to pull a GameStop or maybe they’ll crash and burn like RadioShack

Euro Truck Simulator/American Truck Simulator

It quickly just becomes a virtual road trip simulator, and as someone who generally enjoys driving and road trips its very chill

People Order Our Patties?

I keep saying that it’s wild living in the future!

…usually related to something amazing happening in space travel or AI but I suppose the fediverse can join that list

I think the upvote/downvote system just allows for a larger community before it becomes too big to be a good community