At the moment the server owner effectively 'owns' magazines & communities. Is that the right balance of power? What happens when servers go offline, or server admins go rogue?

In a world where both users and magazines had public and private keys and magazine moderators had the tools to do off-site backups.

Could the magazine moderator then do an unassisted migration to a new place?

They revoke the key that gives the original server the right to host the magazine. They use the key to re-create it on a new server.

Somehow notify all the members the magazine of the new location. The users use their public keys to reclaim their identities and content.

Would that give mods too much power?

It all gets complicated fairly quickly! I think the Bluesky AT protocol is somewhat close to this model for user content, but doesn't really extend to 'community' scale content.

It falls short of a full confederal protocol

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I stuck a service on https://kbin.world that redirects you based on a IP lookup for your country. In descending order it tries to;

• If there is a kbin instance for your country it redirects you there (Just Poland for now!)

• If you have a feddit instance for your country it redirects you to the most appropriate magazine on that instance, within kbin.social eg Germany

• If you have a large national community on another Lemmy instance it redirects you there, again within kbin.social (eg Brasil)

For the ones I haven't got around to it redirects you to kbin.social homepage

It could be broken down to regions too. As more national or regional kbin instances emerge I'll replace the existing feddit/other sites.

I did a bit of testing with Pingdom and it seems to work

In the process I noticed that New Zealand and Japan feddit instances won't load for some reason. Any idea why?

However, when reddit crapped the bed, by comparison, the threadiverse basically didn’t have an established culture. There was a handful of lemmy instances (we were one of them), but the only one of notable size was lemmy.ml. kbin didn’t even exist in any meaningful way until a couple of months before reddit died.

So, when reddit died, there was no established culture. Instead, people brought reddit culture with them, and reddit culture, because of lax admins, was much more tolerant of hate speech than microfedi. And so, people who are “reddit people” more than “fediverse people” set up lemmy and kbin instances, and brought those reddit norms with them.

So then, you get instances like blahaj and beehaw that are threadiverse instances, but have the “old school” microfedi approach to bigotry. We smash it down hard at the first hint of seeing it, but most of the instances we federate with don’t attack it so aggressively.

You may be able sign up directly on !worldnews

You could subscribe the main magazine on
Kbin.social or Lemmy.world

It's fed by a bot, but human submissions welcome too. If a human makes a post the bot stops posting for one hour.

Comments and upvotes will improve it.

I've been running a Kbin server on a service called elest.io for around a week.

Had a few teething troubles configuring caching, but that should work out of the box now.

If you can point & click on stuff in a semi-sensible manner then you could run your own instance for yourself, a specific community/sub.

I've configured mine as a news aggregator: https://fledd.it

You could subscribe to the main magazine here !worldnews

Elest.io do the install, configuration, encryption, backups, software updates, os upgrades, live monitoring, alerts, live migrations without downtime.

I'm not connected with them in any way other than as a customer.

In many supermarkets across South Korea, one item has conspicuously vanished from shelves: salt.

You can't sign up directly on !worldnews as registration is not enabled.

You could subscribe the main magazine on Kbin.social or Lemmy.world though

I made a bot to copy the top links from /r/worldnews

You can subscribe here !worldnews

Amid fears Russia might blow up the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Ukraine has been holding drills to prepare emergency services with how to deal with a potential radioactive disaster.

ABC News was invited to the drills in the city of Zaporizhzhia this week, about 30 miles from the plant, where firefighters in hazmat gear simulated decontaminating people from radiation during an evacuation.

Emergency workers demonstrated scanning civilians with Geiger counters as they disembarked buses, stripping some civilians and hosing them with water as they lay on stretchers. Firefighters in yellow suits sprayed down vehicles and moved them through a large washer system rigged up between fire trucks.

PARIS, July 2 (Reuters) - Rioters ram-raided the home of a Paris suburb mayor, set the car alight and launched fireworks at his wife and young children as they fled during a fifth night of nationwide unrest over Tuesday's police shooting of a teen of North African descent.

Vincent Jeanbrun, 39, the centre-right mayor of the southern suburb of L'Hay-les-Roses, was at the town hall when his house was attacked with his wife Melanie and children asleep inside.

The aggressors drove their vehicle at the suburban house but were halted by a low wall ringing the property's outdoor terrace, the local public prosecutor said. They then torched their vehicle.