I think this guide is fantastic but I find very few guides out there really drill down into the risks you take on when it comes to what is shared and hosted on your server. I don’t think people understand that when you host an instance, you are immediately held liable for any number of potential scenarios and you need to head them off out the gate or you will be facing potential legal repercussions. I like your section on blocklists but it’s so much bigger than that.

The feds and my having a family are the biggest reasons I don’t host an instance.

Once you’ve been doxxed you tend to put more effort into covering your tracks lol

Oooo is this automatic process something that’s easy to replicate?

Nope lol

I edit over and then delete all my comments every few days. I’ve never encountered a site that truly purges your account so as annoying it is it just feels necessary at this point

edit: interesting some of us are getting downvotes for this.

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