https://lemmy.wtf/u/meldrik posted on Mar 5, 2026 09:52
A lot of people simply don’t have time to go the extra steps.
Instead you should be focused on secure by default design. E.g. not setting a static router password to admin admin.
It’s stupid in this day and age to continue to see default logins occur still.
simply don’t have time
Sorry, but that is no reason. That’s a bit akin to having a dog and saying: “Nah I don’t have time to walk the dog now”. Selfhosting something that is publicly available (not as in “everyone can use it” but “everyone can access it”) bears some level of responsibility. You either make the time to properly set up and maintain it, or you shouldn’t selfhost stuff.
In other words, can any user delete its data on its will and is there something that will remove its data from all the connected activitypub services? I believe this should actually be a basic feature and pretty much a requirement.
Anything you post on the internet is public knowledge forever. End of discussion. Most people won’t care at all, in most cases almost nobody or perhaps even literally nobody will ever even see it, but the harder you try to hide it, the more the Streisand Effect will magnify it until eventually everyone knows about it.
Anyone telling you they’ll delete your data from the internet without clarifying that it is in fact impossible, is at worst deliberately lying to you usually for their own benefit, and at best making a promise they literally have zero ability to keep.
I would hope that Fediverse services will never lie to you and tell you your data is deleted, because it can’t be.
I think not? Which is kind of a drawback to the fediverse. You gotta be careful what you post cause it’s probably gonna be somewhere forever.
I could be wrong though
Im right now using lemmy/piefed but what other neat projects should i look into as a newcomer to this world?
Im not looking for anything in particular, i just want to expand what i use and see more projects.
BookWyrm, reading tracker and review sharing
I don’t know if it’s wrong and how much, but I’ve seen it likened to Imgur more than YouTube: a place from which you link your videos in other parts of the recovered, rather than a platform to browse videos fed by the algorithm. Sorry if I’m mistaken.
I’ve got 200TB of HDDs all with 80,000+ hours on them :(
Pray they don’t break in the next 4 years.
I’ll join you
Time to repurpose all of my random mixed capacity HDDs in a bag somewhere, I guess.
on the plus side, when the my butt bubble pops, hardware will be soooooo cheap
do NOT open SMB to the internet. You will get crypto’d in minutes. Just a warning for any newbs coming here.