Haven’t tried it myself yet but in the connect client there is a word filter that could do the trick.

The physical location of the registrar plays a role in who had authority. There’s also the location of the site itself to consider, though that’s harder with things like cloud hosts or the TOR network. It’s also possible that a government could require all ISPs in their country to redirect or sinkhole the requests from their users, but that leaves the door open for end users to change their DNS provider.

Short version, it depends. There are a lot of variables in play and levers to pull.

I was thinking more on the lines of containerization vs virtualization vs bare metal in regards to the efficiency. A compute cluster running a stack of containers all backed by a storage area network can handle a pile more transactions than a bunch of desktops all running their own OS with dedicated drives.

The distributed spare cycles thing works well for projects like the FAH or BOINC systems where all are working on a singular project in small pieces but less so for other things just because of the transfer and transaction overhead. Still, it’s a fine way to start putting some control back in the user’s hands that can be run with a minimal investment.

The ideal is fine but in conjuction with that there are two downsides as well. A consolidated datacenter does hold onto the efficiencies of scale in many facets, multiple small instances require more boxes using more resources to iperate and the inconsistent retrieval and bandwidth attached will have an effect. The other is the political realm, where regulators can be readily bought those with resources can and will make things more difficult if they feel existentially threatened. Loo at the fight that hollywood amd the music industry put up against just the pirate bay alone for an example of what the distributed web is up against. The fact that there’s not so much gray area of activity going on is secondary to the fact that it challenges the established systems.

They all should be able to speak together, it’s more a question of how each interprets it. I havn’t tested personally but some reports of following lemmy from mastodon results in a firehose of individual comments for a given topic being received.

Having a couple chained together muddies the results enough that unless you’re accessing things that you’re REALLY not supposed to won’t bother to track back. DNS is a ‘ask the next guy’ type of ordeal with some along the way caching the responses they’ve received for whatevr length of time the TTL is set on a record. Technically you could set a DNS server to cache things infefinatly and never querry a public server again past the first call but it would quickly be full of outdated records that point you to the wrong destination.

I’ll second this for the most part. Once you get the basic framework of a docker host set up it’s pretty simple with only a couple containers holding it up so if you can understand the workings of virtual machines/containers it’s pretty ‘easy’ to set up. That said, an ugly XSS vulnerability has been out there causing problems and as a whole it’s very much an unpolished product so there’s a lot of work in understanding ‘why the heck is it doing this now??’ things.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/

You could try here, it lists the uptime and geo location of plenty of fedi instances of all stripes. Take the uptimes with a grain of salt though, if they can’t reach an instance for whatever reason it gets marked down even if it was actually fine, so it can read a bit low sometimes.

Managed switch to create vlans and a firewall to manage the traffic.

Past that it’s really a case of how much you want exacting control. Even a single /24 network gives 253 hosts and the class C space allows for a whole pile of those, so in theory it’d be easy to put everyone in their own network, but a pain to maintain.

For a long while, before the twitter implosion, hardly anyone used them at all. My thought is it just never caught on for the most part. With the ability to follow tags now and more twitter migratees it seems to be more common to see them but still doesn’t seem as much of a standard practice as with other sites.

Mostly a lot of monitors and tablets, be interesting to get some cheap gear but wouldn’t want to give the guy a dime.

SQUEEZE EM IN THEIR EYE!

A vpn with port forwarding should still work. Connection to the tunnel provider is inside-out, presents the vpn as the external host, then forwards traffic back down the tunnel. I know AirVPN has it still.

There are a number of apps for android to do the same, each with +/-s but the google one is prbabbly the most solid simply because it can get its hooks into the OS level where most others tey and do things via overlays or similar. One called MMGuardian is pretty solid though, if you set it up along side family link to remove the default messager you can actually force any text messages through the app to CC the parent, as well as white/blacklist phone numbers as I recall.

It’s possible but an archane mess of aspects to deal with. DMARK, DKIM, and SPF records are a pain to deal with.

That said, I have a pretty consistently working mailcow set up that doesn’t need 25 (most home ISPs do block that because of spam bots taking over granny’s computer) instead it uses 587 to relay messages through mailjet at no cost since it’s only a few a month. I used another similar marketing relay before too, they all work similar. It does have the drawback of the relay having access to outgoing mail, but incoming is straight to me and not like any other online mail service couldn’t just scan your entire mailbox at will.

Mostly used for internal system notices that dont leave local and signup valudations anyhow so there’s not much for them to gain from it.

It seems FreeNAS/TrueNAS has a lot of plugins available to do many things onboard. For my part though I like to keep storage separate from compute since it gives me more direct control over the frontend services. To that end my go to is https://xigmanas.com/xnaswp/ which was actually Freenas before a split several years ago, they kept the original design of being more a dedicated NAS system (with a few minor builtns for a basic webserver/torrent service, etc) but it’s more a embedded ‘just serve the drives’ type system. Then putting another box, virtual host/docker box, whatever you like and mounting the drives from there lets you build things up and just dump the backing data to the NAS. Lets you get away with a relatively low power box to just serve up the storage and save the compute power for the heavy working apps.

As for hardware, if it’s just serving drives I’ve gotten away with as little as an old 1.3Ghz with 4GB mini-itx board in the past, though that was only with a couple drives, but I’m sure there are boards that can have a lot more attachments to it. Feasibly even a USB hub with a handful of external drives plugged into a RaspberryPi or similar could do the job. If you’re concerned with data redundancy though having a RAID is a plus, so something like this would be good.

https://www.newegg.com/mediasonic-hfr2-su3s2/p/N82E16816322004

https://zeronet.io/

Something like this or freenet’s design would be interesting, but it lacks control by design. Data is involuntarily hosted on the user’s provided space and retrieved ad-hoc by other users. It does tend to suffer from a number of problems though, lost data when hosts are offline, bottlenecks in bamdwidth, particularly freenet that chains connections, and the ‘I don’t want to support that content’ aspect being largely out of the user control.

People used to make their own sites and dedicated forum boards where the norm. With the mess of old hardware floating about, the overall lowering of bandwidth costs, more options being made available and simpler to deploy, and storage in the TBs coming down on price the population is bound to make things personal again one way or another. Being just another profile on some big platform doesn’t have the ‘me’ mark to it that putting your own together does. Have fun with it, break things and make them better, always a new idea to be had.

I guessy answer is, who cares? Don’t treat a social media account as some immortal time capsule of your life. Keep a photo album, write some diary entries, but don’t rely on any form of social media to be the historical record of your existance. If it’s inportant keep it somewhere you can ensure the preservation.

I’m pretty sure the world will continue long after we’ve forgotten beans and not pooping for X days.

If it involves debit/credit card transactions then you start rinning into the PCI-DSS regulations, so unless you’re willing to take payments in crypto doing it yourself gets problematic. Even cryto would be nearly impossible since by its nature those are a more push trasaction where a recurring transfer would generally be a pull from the payee to the paypor.

That’s not to say it’s impossible, after all e-commerce is a thing, but any kind of stored payment transaction puts you in a whole new world of liability and makes you much more of a direct target for thieves than just a passive ‘send money here’ style donation page would.