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

submitted 5 days ago by Shide@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

37 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] Shide@lemm.ee 23 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 21 points 5 days ago

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

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 days ago

Hmm, this is something I haven't heard about. Can you actually register as an instance hoster with the FBI or equivalent to say "hey I have a service that may be exposed to CSAM, I do not condone this and will report any cases of it that I see"? If so that could reduce a lot of people's specific legal fears of hosting.