Philip

Down for me as well

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.

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”.

As an alternative to lemmy.world I would like to suggest my own instance endlesstalk.org.

I have no plans to deferate or ban anything releated to piracy. Only thing that might change my mind would probably be a company taking legal action against me.

I also strive to have as little downtime as possible and keep everything running smoothly.