26
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
26 points (90.6% liked)
Selfhosted
39677 readers
1003 users here now
A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.
Rules:
-
Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
-
No spam posting.
-
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
-
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
-
Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
-
No trolling.
Resources:
- selfh.st Newsletter and index of selfhosted software and apps
- awesome-selfhosted software
- awesome-sysadmin resources
- Self-Hosted Podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting
Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.
Questions? DM the mods!
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Exactly this is what I am worried about, you can get into trouble quickly. Good luck explaining to lawyers/judges that it's not your content actually but just federation. Even if you could, in most jurisdictions you wouldn't be off-the-hook anyway.
I said it in a higher comment with other info but try looking up a remote community that isn't already known by an instance, without being logged in. It won't look it up for you and just silently fail. If unwanted content is what you're worried about unfortunately a malicious actor can basically just drop content directly into your instance without prior notice if your federation is open. This is why db0 is working on systems that will in the future work like shared blacklists (opt-in of course).
Seriously if you really want to host your own instance, it is more or less your responsibility as an admin to moderate that instance. That includes purging and blocking unwanted contents. There is no way to avoid that.
As for your suggestion, it largely boils down to restricting anonymous access to the search related APIs in an instance. It is no doubt a good feature, espeically for read-only instances. I think you can create an issue about it in Github to get more visibility from the devs.