Are there any paid services for either Lemmy or Mastodon? Something where, given it is a subscription service, you would expect them to stick around long-term?

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    1 year ago

    I did the same thing for the same reason. Admin approval for everything and I’m the only admin. Basically a personal instance for me and my friends if they’re too lazy to host but want to try Lemmy.

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      1 year ago

      Exactly. I went one step further and decided not to use my admin account as my main. I don’t run around as root on servers so I try not to do that with apps. It’s easier with Lemmy because once it’s set up all the admin tasks hit my email.

      I also wanted to avoid that vulnerability that hit Lemmy World a few weeks ago that was only possible because the server admin got their jwt stolen, which wouldn’t have been so impactful if they weren’t on the admin account.

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        1 year ago

        I didn’t read the story about how exactly he lost the jwt, but is it still as big of an issue since 2fa was introduced?

        I guess existing jwt hashes will bypass 2fa, but I’m not super worried since my instance has 3 users.

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          1 year ago

          2fa was in at the time. IIRC the jwt was granted after 2fa so it didn’t matter.

          You’ve got a point though, small instances aren’t gonna be nearly as useful as a giant one to threat actors. Assuming you don’t give them a reason to go after you specifically they wouldn’t have a reason to target such a tiny server.

          Still though, I don’t need that shiny A next to my name so I’m good with how I have it set up.