My main concerns is illegal content being posted, shared. Any advice?
I am probably not going to do it due to this, so don’t spend too much time replying 😊
My main concerns is illegal content being posted, shared. Any advice?
I am probably not going to do it due to this, so don’t spend too much time replying 😊
I ran mine for a bit and it’s a resource hog, fragile, and images are a constant problem because the cache just keeps growing and growing so either you keep a limited timeframe of user images or you pay for storage elsewhere.
I was the only user so I didn’t have to deal with moderation, but what finally spooked me was the possibility of someone posting something illegal and it propagating over to my server. That was why I stopped hosting my Lemmy server, too.
Can you just turn that off, and make people directly link to the external media?
AFAIK If you host GotoSocial it links out to the instances where content is hosted, rather than downloading it as a copy. I have a single-user instance on a tiny VPS and it uses hardly any resources. I think part of the reason for that is the above. You have to use a client application with it because there is no web interface, which I think is partly why it is so lightweight.
Might be worth looking at if you’re concerned about accidentally hosting things you don’t want.