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Looking to maybe self host my own instance, I'm still learning about the fediverse. If a different instance that I federate with hosts something illegal are there risks to me? Is anything from other instances hosted on my server like a copy of it? Or would I only end up hosting things my users post? I'm paranoid and sorry if this is a silly question.

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote a pretty good blog post on the legality of the Fediverse, around the time Mastodon was getting popular. It probably applies to Lemmy too. It’s worth a read to familiarize yourself of what kind of legal things you’ll be getting yourself into. You’re on the right track; you can control you and your friends’ content, but you can’t control remote content that gets pushed to your server and that’s the part to worry the most.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer

One thing that stood out is to register yourself as a DMCA agent. It costs $6 or something. Having an agent on record gives instance admins certain protection.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is awesome info. There should be a place to document all the nuance around hosting an instance plus some tips and tricks.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There should be a place to document all the nuance around hosting an instance plus some tips and tricks.

The Wiki: https://joinfediverse.wiki/What_is_Lemmy%3F

Hopefully it gets new contributors and maintainers from all the new users.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yikes, I didn't even know there was a wiki. Thank you!

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