Comment on I need a new hobby, I'm going to set up my own Lemmy instance. Am I an idiot?
shadshack@feddit.online 2 days ago
The only thing I’d say is look into whatever tooling and scripts people have made for removing CSAM from your instance. I messed around with a Lemmy instance for a bit, but when I heard about how hard it was to deal with the pedos, I got a little scared about inadvertently hosting CSAM and decided to shut it down. Since then I think I remember hearing about some better automated tooling for that kind of thing though so hopefully you can set that up.
There’s this specific issue, which is critically important, but also just content management generally.
I think micro instances are a real target for people with nefarious intentions - whether it’s porn, trolling, spamming, fascist groups, whatever.
The hardware and software aspects should be relatively straight forward. The real difficulty will be monitoring new communities, and users.
Uncut_Lemon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If it’s your own instance, with closed sign ups, shouldnt it only sync the content you subscribe too?
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 day ago
I mean, anybody can post anything anywhere, and it will get synced. Many communities aren’t even modded. But removing vile stuff is a burden to put on people to begin with, and I think most Lemmy instances are poorly equipped to deal with this automatically.