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Legal considerations of self-hosting Lemmy instance (szmer.info)

submitted 3 years ago by minode@szmer.info to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi everyone,

I've been wondering about legal implications of self-hosting Lemmy. Isn't it universally required in many countries to moderate the content that you host publicly? What happens when someone posts something illegal on your instance and you don't won't to bother with being a mod and just enjoy the technical aspects of it?

Would love to hear your thoughts on this!

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[–] Jamoke@lemmy.themainframe.org 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Well, as you mentioned before it's to enjoy the "technical aspect", which could be many reasons. For one, if the instance you signed up on shuts down there goes your account with it. I feel better self-hosting because I am in control of when/if it shuts down.

[–] melc@feddit.nl 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I’ve actually been playing with this idea myself! Is it hard to set up/manage?

[–] Jamoke@lemmy.themainframe.org 1 points 3 years ago

It was super easy. I just edited the config file in the Ansible playbook and needed to edit the certbot task because I use Cloudflare but other than that it was a breeze.