Hi all, I sent a message on masto about some concerns I have about the suggested use of archive.is on lemmy but since I didn’t get any feedback, I’m copying it here:

Hi! I am currently trying #Lemmy locally in order to figure what features are available on the platform (for a possible future instance deployment). So far so good, thanks for the work done.

That said, I am a bit concerned about the “Create Post” form and the suggestion to use archive.today/archive.is to archive the shared links. As opposed to archive.org, archive.today is quite shady (zero info about the owner) and the way its engine is circumventing the robot.txt rules isn’t privacy friendly in my opinion.

To make it short, I don’t think it’s safe to encourage people to use archive.today since this website can be a vector of harassment. Have you considered removing this feature or using another service instead?

source: https://hackers.town/web/statuses/106677926407258300