Risks of running a Lemmy/Mbin instance? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago by Shide@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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What are the risks associated with this? With image uploading capabilities and the like I'm thinking there might be an issue with people posting highly illegal content. I used to run some smaller forums 15 years ago and that went fine, but it feels like the risks are higher today... I'm both thinking about one's own personal mental health in needing to moderate such content, and also whether it'll be a legal liability to run an instance if people post illegal content.

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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 3 months ago

If it's open to public, yes. Even if they don't have an account if they can still see the offending content then yes.

However, I bet if you use nginx you could somehow block public access and require an account. Something like if not login page and not has a token then block

[-] abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 2 points 3 months ago

I'm looking into doing this on my single-user instance. I've already modified the code so it doesn't host images that get federated (it simply links to the URL on the original instance), but it would be good to lock things down a bit tighter.