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Legal concerns with self-hosting (links.hackliberty.org)

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.

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[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

If you do not download said asset you should be fine. As long as it is not CP

[-] thomas@lemmy.douwes.co.uk 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy sometimes caches remote content in pict-rs. It's a bit broken so you usually don't see it, but it does do it occasional

[-] terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.li 7 points 1 year ago

IIRC Lemmy preloads all thumbnails for posts in communities you subscribe to into pictrs to be cached for like a month or something. So, yeah...

[-] DarkIrata@lemmy.gwa.app 2 points 1 year ago
[-] terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.li 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah, all I know is that I am definitely seeing images loaded in from domains other than that of my instance as I load/scroll pages, which I want to be loaded via my instance for privacy reasons.

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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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