2023-06-20 01:38 UTC
@ifixcoinops@mstdn.social importing a person is one thing, but importing a massive history of posts is another entirely. It has moderation liability for the instance owner: what potentially *bad* stuff might be in an imported archive? And when will the bad stuff surface?
Moderation is hard enough in real-time without needing to regularly inspect a bolus of posts arriving in an import.
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@phenidone@mstdn.social 2023-06-20 01:40
@ifixcoinops@mstdn.social It seems you can (with some care) host activitypub posts on a static httpd. I hope/expect to see tooling soon that converts a downloaded archive into a directory suitable for web-hosting, which would allow people to fairly-easily self-host their own back-catalogue without needing to run a real instance, with all software maintenance that that implies.