Looking to maybe self host my own instance, I’m still learning about the fediverse. If a different instance that I federate with hosts something illegal are there risks to me? Is anything from other instances hosted on my server like a copy of it? Or would I only end up hosting things my users post? I’m paranoid and sorry if this is a silly question.

  • SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net
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    1 year ago

    If you right click on the image, then click inspect, then you can see the url for the image. Often it’s coming from somewhere else.

    Incidentally, my soapbox instance is different then lemmy – it acts as a proxy, so it soaks up all the images and then hosts them from my one server.

    • Lodion 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      Nope… thats what I’m talking about… image posts to remote communities, with the images being sourced from my instance. Like I said, next time I spot it I’ll dig into it further.

      What software is your instance running?