Kalcifer @ Kalcifer @sh.itjust.works

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I asked about database preferences over in Self-Hosting once and they basically all said "don't choose a database ever.

I'm not sure I follow what you mean; Lemmy uses PostgreSQL.

How much server hosting experience do you have?

I've never hosted a public facing social media service. I have a few years experience hosting a number of my own personal services, but they aren't at the scale of a public facing Lemmy instance.

The spam is not from bots, it's people being paid to spam.

Do you know any specific/official organizations that do this, and/or examples where it's occured on Lemmy?

I would just turn off media uploads entirely.

Do you mean also disabling thumbnails? IIUC, pict-rs handles all thumbnail generation [1]. The reason I point this out is that simply disabling image uploads won't itself stop the generation of thumbnails [2]. There's also the question of storing/caching images that come from federated servers.

::: spoiler Referencs

1. Lemmy Documentation. Accessed: 2024-11-11T01:59Z. https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/administration.html.
   • "9. Administration". §"Lemmy Components". §"Pict-rs".

     Pict-rs is a service which does image processing. It handles user-uploaded images as well as downloading thumbnails for external images.

2. "I just developed and deployed the first real-time protection for lemmy against CSAM!". @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com. Published: 2023-09-20T01:38:09-07:00. Accessed: 2024-11-11T02:16Z. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/4500908.
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     [...] if the content is a link to an external site, lemmy sill caches the thumbnail and stores it in the local pict-rs [...]. :::

One thing to note, I wasn’t able to get it running on a VPS because it requires some sort of GPU.

This is good to know. I know that you can get a VPS with a GPU, but they're usually rather pricey. I wonder if there's one where the GPU's are shared, and you only get billed by how much the GPU is used. So if there is an image upload, the GPU would kick on to check it, you get billed for that GPU time, then it turns off and waits for the next image upload.

If your instance freely hosts whatever without any oversight, word will spread and all of a sudden you’re hosting all sorts of bad stuff. It’s not technically illegal if you don’t know about it, but I personally don’t want anything to do with that.

Yeah, this is my primary concern. I'm hoping that there are established best practices for handling the majority of this sort of unwanted content.

Run the software that scans images for CSAM.

Which software is that?

If you have open registrations you’ll be doing a lot of moderation for spam.

Perhaps Captchas are sufficient?

We require applications

Is this functionality built into the Lemmy software?

Addendum (2024-11-11T00:32Z):

Ah, yeah, it looks like it is configurable in the admin panel [1].

You should probably also have more than one person with access to the server, to avoid the problems we had with feddit.de .

Which problems are you referring to?

• data ingress/egress
• storage (block and DB)

Do you have any estimations on the relationship between user count and average data transfer rates, and the average rate of storage increase?

choose your host wisely

Do you have any particular recommendations for a host?

For moderation you’ll want to join https://matrix.to/#/#defense:lemmy.world

Thank you! That'd be an invaluable resource.

I've never used AirVPN, but I've used Mullvad for a few years and I rarely ever have any issues with it. I won't deny that I have few complaints, but the complaints that I do have are quite minimal. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Mullvad based on my own experience.

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/14915311

there’s no style to it

I mean, it depends on how you are defining "style", but, to avoid being pedantic, I actually think that it does have a style, and a very recognizable and unique style at that. It has a very maximalist, industrial, gritty look to it that I love. Everything is so hyper-detailed in model design, texture, and animation. It all fits a very specific aesthetic. It's completely fine if that aesthetic is not to your taste, but I think it's disingenuous to say that it has no style at all.

I hate old games.

Is 2020 considered old...?. I understand that the game was available for some time prior to that, but during that period Factorio was in early access. 1.0 came out in 2020, and I am treating that as the full release, and everything prior to that is beta testing for development.

Factorio's art really does kinda suck.

I will restate the original question: What do you not like about it?

I'm not interested in Factorio because imo it looks terrible.

What do you not like about it?