First post from my new, self-hosted, personal instance. Feels good!
Nice work and welcome to the club!
This sounds like a fun project to be honest. Are there any risks involved by getting bad content through federation that’s out of your control?
Just a week or so ago I read an article about a guy running a tor exit node personally and being held responsible for the traffic
I am not completely sure about the risks here, but I think as the sole user on my instance they are pretty low. I think the only way content gets onto my machine is if I post it, if I interact with content on other instances, or if I create a community to which other people from other instances start posting. Despite my handle, there are some crimes I don’t do. I should be okay as long as I don’t mess with illegal content myself and moderate accordingly others’ behavior in my communities.
Yeah pretty much.
If you block porn-related instances suchas lemmynsfw and pornlemmy, you’ll drastically reduce your chance of getting CSAM contents on your instance. Not saying those instances promotes that kind of stuff, but many dubious instances (the ones with kiddie/doll banners) federate with them, and might post bad stuff when the mods aren’t looking.
If you’re still super worried about it, you can host your instance behind cloudflare and enable their CSAM scanning tool.
Has anybody managed to get CyberTipline credentials for the CSAM scanning tool? I filled out their form and never heard back.
You’re supposed to contact them at [email protected] in order to start the enrollment process, and it seems the service is only for US-based operators.
I did that, but never heard back, and I am US-based… very odd. Thanks for your reply!
These kind of organizations usually take their time when responding email, and certainly not on weekend.
It’s been more than a week, otherwise I’d think the same thing.
It only pulls from communities you have subscribed to. Images aren’t duplicated per server, just text; so even if you find something nasty it’s not hosted by you and you can always delete comments from the database/block users from appearing in your instance.
Tangential - is there any reason a private instance couldn’t just not run a pictrs container? Especially if you’re not creating communities on your instance.
Yeah, but you’d lose out on being able to have a profile banner/photo.
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Hello from my personal instance, and welcome!
Welcome! Another fellow self-hoster checking in ✅
Just try not to get ddosed ok m8?
Yeah, I definitely have a lot to learn in terms of self-hosting self-defense.
What are you running for your firewall? I’ve been curious about self hosting a Lemmy instance (currently have a few services like Plex, Minecraft, pihole, etc) but do worry about security
Just whatever is built into my home router. I only have certain ports open to my servers. The known unknown is whether nginx any of my sites’ software have exploitable vulnerabilities.
Great work!
Nice work!
Greetings from my instance 😄
I love sh.itjust.works!
Haha thought i was on my other account 😅
I won’t tell anyone! Lmao.
I appreciate all of the weird instance names in here
Hehe I needed a login for a Superbowl pool with my kid’s preschool and that’s what I came up with. When my wife saw she couldn’t stop laughing, so it stuck.
Same.
Also joined the club today :)
Hello from another self hosted instance! Also using Lemmy Community Seeder to populate my All feed and help in discovering new communities. Lemmy Community Seeder
Hello self hosted person.
Been on my own instance all month and it’s been smooth sailing for me!
feddit.ie checking in!
Hello from my self hosted kbin!
