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If I self host a Lemmy instance for just myself and maybe a few friends are there any risks? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 years ago by VitaminH@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Looking to maybe self host my own instance, I'm still learning about the fediverse. If a different instance that I federate with hosts something illegal are there risks to me? Is anything from other instances hosted on my server like a copy of it? Or would I only end up hosting things my users post? I'm paranoid and sorry if this is a silly question.

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[–] lodion@aussie.zone 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Yeah profile pics are fine. I'm specifically talking about image posts. Next time I spot one I'll see if the post came from a user on my instance. If not, I have no idea why the post image would be on my instance.

[–] SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

If you right click on the image, then click inspect, then you can see the url for the image. Often it's coming from somewhere else.

Incidentally, my soapbox instance is different then lemmy -- it acts as a proxy, so it soaks up all the images and then hosts them from my one server.

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Nope... thats what I'm talking about.. image posts to remote communities, with the images being sourced from my instance. Like I said, next time I spot it I'll dig into it further.

What software is your instance running?

[–] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

You can see in this image that the meme I'm currently looking at is hosted on lemmy.world even though I'm on my own Lemmy instance.

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 0 points 3 years ago

Yep, that is nearly but not always the case.

[–] SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net 1 points 3 years ago

I'm on Lemmy 0.18.0 right now. I host a number of other kinds of software too, I've been all-in on the fediverse for a few years.