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.
I made the mistake of going to their /b/ board one time. In short, yes, people do. Horrifying gore, too. Just basically don’t. Like, ever.
The problem with the comparison here, however, is that that place moves incredibly fast and deletes everything automatically and permanently. Even if the feds came knocking for 4Chan, there’d probably be nothing to show. Lemmy, on the other hand, apparently caches everything locally until you manually purge it (so I’ve heard).