Comment by 👻 ps

Re: "R.I.P. Yesterweb"

In: s/Geminispace

I believe that some people are able to reanimate it by moving those blogs to another server. However, I am personally moving my blog to the multi-homing I2P model. There weren't many readers before, and there won't be many after.

👻 ps [OP]

Mar 03 · 2 months ago

6 Later Comments ↓

🚬 sy · Mar 03 at 05:07:

I hope that malicious actor was just an incompetent user with a buggy script.

🚀 thoughtterminatingcliche · Mar 03 at 17:59:

I wish you courage and rebirth

🐦 roughnecks · Mar 06 at 00:58:

I guess it make no difference how big are you.. Villains are everywhere.

Sometimes I say: "If you're self-hosting, don't ever look at logs" (because they're pretty scary, you know).

💎 pista · Mar 07 at 02:08:

@roughnecks Don’t even keep logs. You can’t be compelled to hand information over to evil governments when it doesn’t exist.

🐦 roughnecks · Mar 07 at 08:31:

I never said I'm storing them ;-) but logs are important for other reasons too.

🚀 astrowat · Mar 26 at 19:51:

Thank you for making what looks like a popular space. I’m sorry I didn’t get a chance to experience yesterweb when it was still live, but I’m glad it’s still available in read-only form. That was very kind of you to let everyone save their stuff!

Original Post

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👻 ps:

R.I.P. Yesterweb — hi my name is iris, i wrote the software that runs this service. ok so . as im sure you're aware, the yesterweb "shut down" quite a while ago. like 4 years ago. yestercities stayed up as many users were still actively using it, but due to my own mental health and the community exploding, i stopped maintaining this service. sorry to those of you who continued to use it despite that. recently, a malicious actor abused the a vulnerability in the webdav file manager that i had...

💬 9 comments · 2 likes · Mar 03 · 2 months ago