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[–] HKayn@dormi.zone 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Instance owners are responsible for the content that is mirrored on their instance through federation, so they definitely should.

[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ayy, hello there Kayn (Im just a random guy from filen discord).

[–] HKayn@dormi.zone 2 points 11 months ago

Oh hi! Small world, eh?

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Hazzard@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Legally responsible, for one.

I.E. If a federated instance hosted pedophilia, that content would be copied to, and served by, your instance's infrastructure, which is obviously legally problematic.