Hey, US folks newly running Mastodon instances: do Future You a *huge* favor, mitigate your potential liability, and register with the copyright office and designate an agent to receive DMCA reports *right now*. https://copyright.gov/dmca-directory/

(Via [email protected])

DMCA Designated Agent Directory | U.S. Copyright Office

DMCA Designated Agent Directory

Probably a compelling reason to host elsewhere if you're running a small hobby instance no?
@chema @blaine If you yourself are in the US, I don't think that does you any good.
Maybe we will watch a cottage industry sprout in some random jurisdiction that hosts single-user instances for folks in the US and Europe.