Some of us consider [data disappearing] a good thing.
I love to have privacy. I hate when im forcible deplatformed and decontented. hate hate it.
Choosing to delete your data is privacy. Losing it because an admin had no working backup is data loss. Those are completely different things. If you want to burn your account every year, great. But someone else may have spent five years writing troubleshooting guides, moderating a community, or building useful discussions. They should be able to expect their home instance to have a backup.
I thought you were a repost bot when I first saw your content.
I created two new accounts and both were banned after roughly 10 posts overnight. No warning. No “hey, are you automating this?” No request to slow down or tag the account. Just assumption --> bot/spam -> ban.
Also - automation is not even fucking illegal on lemmy.world!!! do people not realize that?
Note that reddit does not do that. post as much as the fuck you want. Imagine new lemmy user doing this and just getting banned. wth. resson for 35k MAU
I haven’t personally experienced any file size limits
External hosting isn’t a substitute for local media hosting. Hotlinking gets blocked all the time, URLs expire or posts get removed. Authentication gets added. Hosts disappear. HTTP headers and referrer policies break embeds. Some major platforms deliberately make direct linking difficult.
If I want media attached to a post to remain available, the reliable option is for the instance to actually host a copy., 5 MB is tiny for modern media.
Are you suggesting that people with post history should be immune to bans?
hell No. Obviously if someone posts CSAM, malware, threats, or other illegal content, remove it and ban them.
I’m talking about proportionality.
If somebody has contributed hundreds of legitimate posts for months and then an admin decides their posting volume is too expensive, banning the account and wiping everything they’ve contributed is insane infrastructure management.
And on the other extreme, I had brand-new accounts banned after around 10 posts simply because admins apparently decided they looked like bots.
There’s a gigantic spectrum between “do nothing” and “nuke the account.”
not even a warning? not even a pm? ffs really? Rate-limit them. Remove the offending posts. Temporarily suspend them. Communicate.
A ban system existing doesn’t mean every problem requires the maximum penalty.
I don’t concern myself with who can see my posts.
up to you, you are you. federation is a social network. Most people posting to communities presumably want other people to see and interact with what they post.
An entire instance suddenly becoming unable to interact with another instance is absolutely relevant to those users.
“content” is ephemeral. What are you actually losing?
Potentially years of knowledge.
You actually gave the perfect example yourself: that obscure six-year-old troubleshooting post that solves somebody’s problem.
Today’s shitpost is disposable. Today’s detailed technical answer might be somebody’s Google result five years from now.
The whole point I’m making is that users should get to decide what’s disposable, not discover that their instance admin decided it for them by never setting up backups.