First post from my new, self-hosted, personal instance. Feels good!

  • @WontonSoup@lemmy.world
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    31 year ago

    This sounds like a fun project to be honest. Are there any risks involved by getting bad content through federation that’s out of your control?

    Just a week or so ago I read an article about a guy running a tor exit node personally and being held responsible for the traffic

    • CrimeDadOPA
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      41 year ago

      I am not completely sure about the risks here, but I think as the sole user on my instance they are pretty low. I think the only way content gets onto my machine is if I post it, if I interact with content on other instances, or if I create a community to which other people from other instances start posting. Despite my handle, there are some crimes I don’t do. I should be okay as long as I don’t mess with illegal content myself and moderate accordingly others’ behavior in my communities.

    • @redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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      1 year ago

      If you block porn-related instances suchas lemmynsfw and pornlemmy, you’ll drastically reduce your chance of getting CSAM contents on your instance. Not saying those instances promotes that kind of stuff, but many dubious instances (the ones with kiddie/doll banners) federate with them, and might post bad stuff when the mods aren’t looking.

      If you’re still super worried about it, you can host your instance behind cloudflare and enable their CSAM scanning tool.

    • Eddie
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      61 year ago

      It only pulls from communities you have subscribed to. Images aren’t duplicated per server, just text; so even if you find something nasty it’s not hosted by you and you can always delete comments from the database/block users from appearing in your instance.

      • @TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub
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        21 year ago

        Tangential - is there any reason a private instance couldn’t just not run a pictrs container? Especially if you’re not creating communities on your instance.

        • Eddie
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          21 year ago

          Yeah, but you’d lose out on being able to have a profile banner/photo.

        • CrimeDadOPA
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          11 year ago

          I am certainly getting by without pictrs, but I would like to eventually dress up my instance a little bit and make it a little easier to post images.