I’ve been considering self-hosting for over a year now, but I’m still concerned if the feds will come knocking at my door for something someone else does.

For example, if someone on my server follows an individual or community and they posts something illegal (i.e. unauthorized sexually exploitive images) that content could be stored on my server. Wouldn’t’ I be legally liable for such?

I mean #fucklaws and everything, but I don’t want to end up in a cage and certainly not for something someone else did.

  • ScrubblesEnglish
    32•1 year ago

    Yes, which is why there aren’t a lot of NSFW communities right now.

    You can be pretty safe if you ban NSFW and have a good hand in moderation, and most of the time if the feds did come knocking it would probably be just to ask for the user who did post it and to give all information on them.

    Users love to complain that there is no NSFW in most places on lemmy but then refuse to accept any of the responsibility of hosting it.