Post #3499421

Something to consider about the fediverse is the federation aspect of it; consider re framing your starting position. Basically, if you make the project “you” hosting “this one” fediverse instance, that instance can be taken down, hacked, its moderation team gets bored, etc… However if you making the project about “creating access to self-hosting” fediverse instances, well now you have something more robust that at least in a hypothetical scenario, could survive the internet being cut off from the outside, because at least instances within the network can still federate. Something that is self-hosted which could support with this is codeberg. You could set up some repo’s to sync with the main lemmy/ piefed/ whatever you want, then you get your community to create several federated instances as automatic backups to one another. Regardless, your personal and operational security should be your highest priority. But if you make the priority getting the tools out, instead of hosting one particular instance, thats much harder to stop.