Onno (VK6FLAB)

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.

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  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radiotoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldNotifuse is now open source
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    2 months ago

    Not to rain on the parade, but in my experience, having had to email customers in bulk … sending tickets and logistics requirements for large events … I can tell you that self hosting this is a complete and utter waste of time.

    You’ll get blocked before the first batch of emails leave your mailer.

    Not even paid MailChimp or Campaign Monitor could guarantee delivery.

    The problem is not the platform for sending email, it’s the centralised nature of email hosting, much of it is behind Google and Microsoft hosted services.






  • Censorship by stealth.

    … because that’s what it amounts to.

    Platforms will start making their content “acceptable” to the “general consensus” (ie. right wing bible bashing hetero caucasians) in order to allow general access to content.

    “Unsuitable” material, like sex education, domestic violence advice, sexual orientation and religious freedom will “vanish” from the internet, just like it already is across the platforms run by USA billionaires.

    Those who fail to comply will be taken to court and those too small to fight will close down their internet presence.

    The credit card companies are already doing this for anyone who sells anything they don’t like.

    This current wave is just more of it.

    It has absolutely nothing to do with keeping children safe, and everything to do with control.








  • From your description it’s unclear, does this also block CSAM that’s physically on your infrastructure, or just any links to external content?

    CloudFlare is currently attempting to block LLM bots and doing a shit job at it. I’m guessing that any CSAM blocking would be incomplete at best.

    What happens if some “gets through”, or if non-CSAM content is blocked, both materially, as-in, what happens, and, what are the legal implications, since I doubt that CloudFlare would ever assume liability for content on your infrastructure.

    Edit: I thought I’d also point out that this is not the only type of content that could get you into a legal black hole. For example, if a post was made that circumvented a legal ruling, say when a court in Melbourne, Australia, makes a suppression order that someone breaches. Or if defamatory content was published, etc.