The main table that all the growth was in is now split and the cached federated content can be dropped with out much work, and there was talk of tuning it to expire at 3 months.
The content on no.lastname.nz (very small instance) is only about 10-15GB including cached images
It gets even weirder. As a New Zealander, we would never say hogget for meat for the consumer (unless you went to a 'proper butcher), Farmers/Butchers will call 1-2 y/o sheep hoggets though.
I was running dev for the week and a half on, no.lastname.nz, before 0.18.3-rc.x came out. I can't say I've had any real issues on 0.18.3, except the nested comments bug.
but it is just a simple vote count/time decay, no consideration given to what you have interacted with in the past, ie the "algorithm" on other platforms
The law in New Zealand and Australia (where my .nz instance is hosted for now) are not very pomissive in the space of pron and espitally anything that looks remotely like CP (Henti et al). I have made the choice to defederate from any instance that promotes hosting porn. This is to [help] cover my ass. This extends to lemmynsfw, even though they are doing a good job of filtering their content. Active moderation is one thing that can save your ass (at least in NZ). If you are an instance owner you have to know the PORN/CP/etc statutes that you may run afoul of where you host.
Please not that I have not made a HUGE song and dance about de-federating lemmynsfw's content and I'm not demanding that the ban whole communities of subscribers.
I think that us instance owners need better mod tools to police content that gets hosted on our instances. ie there is no easy way to check on any images that are uploaded to your instance.
There are some very good comments here, here are a few to think on:
With FOSS anybody cant just modify the code that you use, say in my lemmy instance. The code I run comes from the dev's own github account, and they manage the code that comes into the project - this doesn't mean that the underlying code is immune to bugs any bore than closed platforms though, just that more eyes can look for bugs and exploits
With FOSS I can fork a code base and publish that, like I have done with the Alexandrite UI for lemmy. I could insert password sniffers in that cade, and someone could build from that source - but the code changes that I have made are laid out for any one to look at. Again, it doesn't mean the base code is any better than closed, just that more eyes can look
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