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Risks of running a Lemmy/Mbin instance? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What are the risks associated with this? With image uploading capabilities and the like I'm thinking there might be an issue with people posting highly illegal content. I used to run some smaller forums 15 years ago and that went fine, but it feels like the risks are higher today... I'm both thinking about one's own personal mental health in needing to moderate such content, and also whether it'll be a legal liability to run an instance if people post illegal content.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (32 children)

Federation means any content posted to any federated instance gets cached on your side and you become a hoster of it.

This includes if someone posts or creates an instance for child porn and starts spamming it. You're possibly liable. and then have to deal with reviewing and cleaning it up to cover your ass.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (23 children)

I'd love to support the fediverse but this sounds like a huge hassle and a problem. Maybe it's just me though, I'm glad that there are others that have decided to host instances.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (17 children)

I never thought I'd be a registered CSAM reporter with the feds, but then I decided to host public content via Lemmy. Turns out, while 99.9% of users are great or fine, that 0.1% are just assholes for the sake of being assholes

[–] Quacksalber 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think Lemmy/Mbin would benefit from 'moderation pools'. The basic idea is that, if you subscribe to or join a moderation pool, your instance will automatically copy any moderation action taken on content your instance also hosts. This would allow multiple single-admin instances to moderate even during off-hours of any single admin.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's partially what https://fediseer.com/ does.

The same dev also made a CSAM scanning tool based on AI image recognition.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://github.com/db0/pictrs-safety

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