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Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks
(techcrunch.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2024
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At least you have control over your data and you and your friends can blame you for server crashes lol.
I didn't realize it was possible to host your own backend locally... I thought it was just hosting the webUI locally.
Yep, you can host it all yourself. Both UI and the server. Not sure how backwards compatible the "public" client is - I remember Rocket.chat Android client breaking by not updating the server on at least 2 occasions over the past 2 years.
Nah, I remember the FMHY crowd keeping their own instance up