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  • You could use a script to automate editing the hostfile on windows or /etc/hosts on Linux. If you define a section in the file with comments, the script should just replace the relevant entries for the project inside the section, and leave the rest alone. You can have multiple sections and multiple scripts that can coexist. Works well for my work project. It’s included in a general setup script which can be run as often as needed to keep stuff like this updated on our local machines.


  • Pretty interesting! At some point, developers an admins of federated services need to carefully consider the GDPR and how to comply efficiently. This jives well with the concept of “don’t store data for longer than absolutely necessary”. There is a risk that it will lead to broken or crippled conversations as they get older. I do agree that an instance shouldn’t try to act as an archive of all data. But there is sometimes great value in keeping these - both for historical and practical reasons. Maybe the data could be anonymized somehow, instead of deleted? But that would require manual review of the data, to ensure correct anonymization.

    Maybe you could mark certain threads as " important" and only these would require manual review, the rest of the users data would be deleted.

    Just some quick thoughts