That's good to know. I've had some half baked plans to host a public instance for a while (will probably get to it in winter) and honestly the legal risk has been something that's really held me back. Knowing I have a way to cover my ass for removing it is great.
empireOfLove2
joined 11 months ago
Hmm, this is something I haven't heard about. Can you actually register as an instance hoster with the FBI or equivalent to say "hey I have a service that may be exposed to CSAM, I do not condone this and will report any cases of it that I see"? If so that could reduce a lot of people's specific legal fears of hosting.
By default a fresh new instance will federate with no other instances period.
Instances only "learn" about the existence of an outside instance or community after a user enters a community+instance address in the search bar. After that, the home instance will sync with the remote instance and begin getting all new push data from that point on.
I don't know if Lemmy allows "whitelisting" of synced instances, such that it will auto synchronize with a provided list and ignore all others even if users search for them. I feel like it does, but I am not familiar enough with the backend to say yay or nay.
Federation means any content posted to any federated instance gets cached on your side and you become a hoster of it.
This includes if someone posts or creates an instance for child porn and starts spamming it. You're possibly liable. and then have to deal with reviewing and cleaning it up to cover your ass.
Get a used SFF office PC low profile card off Ebay. They often have chipset wattages around 25 or so and easily run on slot power only
Something like this: https://www.ebay.com/p/1958445856 (idea only, not endorsing this seller).
Anything of a semi modern format with a pcie interface thata not an outright scam card will be fine for VGA no-driver video output. IME older AMD/ATI cards seem to boot better than oder NVidia cards...
Was on an instance that had too much downtime/inactive admins, had to move, incremented the username number
You can have multiple obliterators
I should know, I have quite a few in my night stand drawer too
It keeps them warm and moist
Oh no it's a me obliterator
Probably the secretary of state republican candidate Dennis Linthicum, who has actively sued the state to end vote by mail and originally got elected by literally stealing a primary election by abusing filing deadlines in cahoots with the Republican incumbents.
But it's OK because he's a nobody that only people in the shithole empty counties know about, and his opponent has a long history with the state as a rep and state treasurer. Plus oregon very reliably votes blue.
If it works, it works. Really any old cheap pcie card will work, if you just need video out of any kind the card type need not be specific. Glad you got it to work.