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!

  • Jamoke@lemmy.themainframe.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    You can set your instance to private and close registrations, which is what I am doing. That way you can use it only for yourself and a few friends and still be connected to the fediverse. The communities that you make on your self-hosted instance wouldn’t be connected, though.

    • minode@szmer.infoOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      What’s the benefit of doing this apart from a technical challenge and fun? Such a server wouldn’t support the network in any way, right?

      • Jamoke@lemmy.themainframe.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Well, as you mentioned before it’s to enjoy the “technical aspect”, which could be many reasons. For one, if the instance you signed up on shuts down there goes your account with it. I feel better self-hosting because I am in control of when/if it shuts down.

        • melc@feddit.nlEnglish
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          2 years ago

          I’ve actually been playing with this idea myself! Is it hard to set up/manage?

          • Jamoke@lemmy.themainframe.orgEnglish
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            2 years ago

            It was super easy. I just edited the config file in the Ansible playbook and needed to edit the certbot task because I use Cloudflare but other than that it was a breeze.