Hi everyone,

I’ve been wondering about legal implications of self-hosting Lemmy. Isn’t it universally required in many countries to moderate the content that you host publicly? What happens when someone posts something illegal on your instance and you don’t won’t to bother with being a mod and just enjoy the technical aspects of it?

Would love to hear your thoughts on this!

  • @venusenvy47English
    5•2 years ago

    If I set up my private instance for the purpose of interacting with other, popular, servers, can I save my comments locally? I’m referring to comments I make on another host, such as lemmy.ml I’m trying to understand if there is a way to keep my content in the event that the other server disappears.

    • nulldevEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      I believe all comments on all communities you interact with are saved locally.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•2 years ago

      I just double-checked and logged into the psql docker container and yeah, your stuff is safely stored as well as all of the other content that is synced up. So, if you sync with [email protected] all of the stuff you see on the front-end will also be stored in your local database, including your own content of course. I do not think this includes images that were not uploaded on your instance.

      Edit: now I’m not sure about the images, I checked the images folder and it’s almost 1 gigabyte. I’ve uploaded 0 images. Not sure if it’s a cache or if they stay there forever.