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PSA: You can upload images to a Lemmy instance without anyone knowing
  • Because anyone can upload illegal images without the admin knowing and the admin will be liable for it.

    The admin/company isn't liable until it is reported to them and they don't do anything about it... That's how all social media sites work, Google isn't immediately liable if you upload illegal materials to GDrive and share it anonymously.

  • www.universalhub.com Boston to try to convert empty downtown offices into residences by slashing their property taxes for three decades

    Mayor Wu today announced a proposal to open up empty commercial space downtown to residential use by offering 75% off standard residential tax rates for up to 29 years for building owners - and by setting up a new office to speed conversions through the city's normal development approval process. Re...

    Boston to try to convert empty downtown offices into residences by slashing their property taxes for three decades
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    What should we do about Threads?
  • Exactly, Threads will use the Fediverse to seed content and then start to drift from the standard when they have sufficient user base that they don't need the outside content. They will start to shift all communities to be Meta-hosted and stop advertising the others. Eventually they will just disconnect entirely.

  • Protect. Moderate. Purge. Your. Sever.
  • Captcha is like locking your car... There are still ways to get in, but it blocks the casual efforts.

    I review my reports. I review spam on my instance. None of us are going to be perfect.

    Do you review upvote bots? The spam is an easily replaceable account, the coordinated army of upvote bots may be harder to track down.

  • Lemmy and the Fediverse - Growth questions/concerns

    I’m a reddit transplant and I’m excited about what I’m seeing so far in Lemmy and the Fediverse, but my brain keeps bugging me with concerns:

    Maintainability and Scalability - There are a ton of instances now. Lemmy had made it easy to spin up and host your own instance. In some cases, this means people with little/no infrastructure experience are spinning things up and are unprepared for scalability challenges and costs. This post by the maintainer of a kbin instance highlighted this challenge quite well ( https://lemmy.one/post/302078 ). How do we know if an instance is properly maintained, backed up, and is able to scale? Or should we just be prepared to start over on another instance if ours fails?

    Monetization - The above cost challenges bring up monetization issues. What mechanisms will instance maintainers have to help with maintenance/hosting costs? As the Fediverse grows, how do we prevent against ads and coordinated upvoting from taking over and pushing ad content?

    Legal/Privacy - Privacy regulations are becoming a mine field… GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy frameworks are making it tougher to handle privacy properly. Is there a coordinated Lemmy legal defense or are instance maintainers on their own? How would you even approach a GDPR user delete request across the fediverse?

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