Comment on Lemmy Safety now supports cleaning local pict-rs storage from CSAM
rentar42@kbin.social 1 year ago
It's great that there's now a tool, but this kind of issue is why I'm not considering self-hosting a fediverse service: due to the nature of the beast even a single-user instance effectively becomes a publicly accessible distributor of content that others created/uploaded. I'm sure this could be restricted somewhat (by making the web UI inaccessible for the public), but the federation means that other instances need to be able to get content from the server. That's way to much legal risk for me.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Actually the other instances don’t pull content. You push it out instead. Basically if you don’t run pict-rs and you don’t allow user registreations, you’re safe for everything except potential copyright infringement from some text someone might post. If you make your webui inaccessible to anyone but your IP, you protect against even that.
rentar42@kbin.social 1 year ago
what stops other instances from pushing bad stuff to you? even if someone I follow posts illegal stuff, it'll end up on my server.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
If you don’t run pictrs, they literally cannot push images to you as you can’t store them