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It's quite sad to see everything related to the blackout on /r/programming wiped.

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  • There are some bots that are useful for everyone (community specific ones mostly), those I have no qualms with as they help everyone in that community.

    The ones I abhor are the spam bots ones, different accounts giving variations of the same messages, possibly to farm karma or inflate activity numbers (I wouldn't rule anything out when it comes to spez making his darling look active).
    I also hate down vote bots as I feel they don't contribute to anything.

    • How did Facebook (aka Meta) aquire the name/domain "threads"?

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  • Considering it was registered in 1995 (https://www.whois.com/whois/threads.com) you are correct in thinking that it should have already been registered.

    However you can sell (transfer) a domain to others if you wish, which is probably what meta did.

    • What can the 'average Joe' start hosting, that will change their life?

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  • In my (our) case we use bind to run an authoritative resolver for our domain (I am sysadmin for a uni computer society, we have our own (physical) servers)

    • What can the 'average Joe' start hosting, that will change their life?

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  • for better or worse it is, (though I don't recommend newcomers to boot up a bind server to manage their dns, pihole is probally the best starting point)

    • If I self host a Lemmy instance for just myself and maybe a few friends are there any risks?

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  • Thank ye,

    I wonder how much of an impact being in the EU will have on that.