With an sre team sure, but there's a difference between the amount of infra I'm willing to setup vs what I want to maintain and be responsible for on my own. I could set this up, spend money on VPS and have something that's difficult for anyone else to maintain.
Or I could just turn on cloudflare.
I'm am expert with all the tech you mentioned, but I'm trying to avoid a complex setup where if I got hit by a bus my fellow admins would struggle to maintain things.
Lemmy.ca does about 2tb a week in traffic, 1tb of which is absorbed by Cloudflare caching images / static resources. We do have the server / network capacity to serve directly, but at the cost of reduced performance and higher latency for users. Our server is in Vancouver, if you're in Montreal you could expect images to load slower for you since they'd no longer be cached locally once one user viewed it. Another advantage is that if we ever do get DDOS'ed, it becomes possible to manage and deal with in a reasonable amount of time + energy.
I'm open to discussing dropping them, but we don't pay them anything as we're just on a free plan. We're just costing them a little money, we don't even register our domains through them.
Shoot it down, or just get it's attention. A lot of the time there's a radio fuckup. If some guy cruising in his Cessna sees a fighter pull up along side, he's definitely switching to 121.5.
There was a commercial jet that was non responsive and the fighter could see the pilots passed out.
Otherwise be there to shoot it down quicker if it looks like it might be taking an aggressive action.
Friendica is the next one we're looking at, but I haven't done anything more than prelim research and securing a domain. I want to make sure pixelfed is running smoothly before adding more.
Mastodon feels well served already, there's a plethora of instances.
The current standard for Fediverse content moderation seems to be for each instance to manage its own content moderation policies, and each instance defederates / block those few instances that are particularly repulsive to them.
Yeah pretty much
A fair concern, but IMO needing something like this is inevitable. Maybe I'm just "early", but I don't think I'm wrong.
I think it would be a major deterrent to new users. I do think it's an interesting concept and would be an interesting experiment on a new instance. I suspect being only supported in Canada would just mean a low number of users though.
I also want people who see my posts to know there's an IRL person behind them and that my account isn't just one sockpuppet of many, though I don't want them to know my IRL identity.
That's reasonable, I'm just not sure that's feasible on this platform. Lemmy is really designed to keep people anonymous. (I don't even have a way to get a user ip address easily.) I also think that's what the community has come to expect, so shifting that would get some pretty mixed responses.
In a way it feels like twitters verified feature, and that makes me wonder if it would work in mastodon
They would just come in via other federated instances. Bots haven't really been a huge issue yet, but it'll be a Fediverse wide one so we need a solution that would scale like that.
I'm also not keen on any sort of pii link to our users, even if it's Canada post holding that data.
If we're not selling user eyeballs or data, do we care if a user maps to a real person?
Not really