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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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[–] kadu@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As much as I disagree with some of them, I recall the folks at the Accidental Tech Podcast spent a good while on this very discussion back when people were migrating from Twitter to Mastodon, and they had some interesting concerns and conclusions.

The answer is yes, in many places the admin hosting the content could be responsible for the content. Where I live I believe they would have to provide user data about who made the post, and if they refuse, they become the responsible party.

[–] minode@szmer.info 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Interesting, I wonder how does decentralized nature of fetching data from other instances affect this. Thanks for providing the reference! Will look into it.