That could actually be useful. The one thing I used to use Twitter for was tracking local emergency response. If all of that operated on a local mastodon instance that all government orgs and press outlets used, I’d be down with that.
Of course, it would be even better if we knew it would, for instance, survive a massive earthquake.
Is that the reason why it’s hosted overseas? I think it’s interesting that an instance “intended to serve citizens and residents of British Columbia” isn’t hosted in BC.
Ideally it would be hosted locally, with backups elsewhere for disaster recovery. Being hosted locally means better latency, and that local laws will determine how the data is handled. Laws that we have influence over
I imagine this is a temporary thing while they sort out local hosting
That could actually be useful. The one thing I used to use Twitter for was tracking local emergency response. If all of that operated on a local mastodon instance that all government orgs and press outlets used, I’d be down with that.
Of course, it would be even better if we knew it would, for instance, survive a massive earthquake.
The instance is currently hosted in Portugal so an earthquake wouldn’t be able to take it down.
Portugal is notoriously impervious to earthquakes.
Is that the reason why it’s hosted overseas? I think it’s interesting that an instance “intended to serve citizens and residents of British Columbia” isn’t hosted in BC.
Ideally it would be hosted locally, with backups elsewhere for disaster recovery. Being hosted locally means better latency, and that local laws will determine how the data is handled. Laws that we have influence over
I imagine this is a temporary thing while they sort out local hosting
Could be because it’s small right now and it’s cheaper to host overseas.
Hmm… if it’s hosted in Portugal, then it’s under the GDPR instead of the CPA and PIPEDA.