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Re:Lemmy Release v0.14.0: Federation with Mastodon and Pleroma by all2 on Thursday November 18, 2021 @12:31PM (#29268067)
Sounds like a business opportunity.

Federated software vendor: we do the dirty work so you can start a new instance with one click.

Re:Lemmy Release v0.14.0: Federation with Mastodon and Pleroma by andrewzah on Thursday November 18, 2021 @01:04PM (#29268456)
There are services like that for Mastodon [0]. But a provider that lets you host from a choice of e.g. mastodon, pleroma, lemmy etc would be interesting.

[0]: https://masto.host/

Re:Lemmy Release v0.14.0: Federation with Mastodon and Pleroma by harpersealtako on Thursday November 18, 2021 @06:31PM (#29271977)
masto.host has a great deal of restrictive, somewhat arbitrary content moderation policies for what is basically just a server host[0].

Since that the original problem is that admins may want to override built-in censorship policies to suit their instance's needs and values, I don't think an even more censorious centralized authority is a great example of a solution.

[0]: https://masto.host/tos/

Re:Lemmy Release v0.14.0: Federation with Mastodon and Pleroma by andrewzah on Thursday November 18, 2021 @10:21PM (#29273426)
I have no affiliation, nor a recommendation. Just noticed that they do provide that service.

Using any hosting provider is ultimately a risk compared to hosting yourself, that's the price you pay for not having the know-how to host it yourself.

And even if you do selfhost, cloudflare may wake up one day and say "nah".

Re:Lemmy Release v0.14.0: Federation with Mastodon and Pleroma by coldacid on Thursday November 18, 2021 @03:59PM (#29270445)
Masto.host is run by one of those people who put inflexible ideology ahead of the wants and needs of their users. That is ever a concern when having a third party set up and manage everything for you.
Re:Lemmy Release v0.14.0: Federation with Mastodon and Pleroma by tedunangst on Thursday November 18, 2021 @02:11PM (#29269209)
Does that one click also edit the source code?
Re:Lemmy Release v0.14.0: Federation with Mastodon and Pleroma by all2 on Thursday November 18, 2021 @05:52PM (#29271633)
I suppose users could apply patches and alter configurations? Caveat Emptor: we do not offer customer support for altered source/configs.