Justin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿Dec 21, 2022

If you are considering running your own Mastodon server (or similar service) and it will be hosted in the United States, please read this general best practice guideline from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer

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User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer

A growing number of people are experimenting with federated alternatives to social media like Mastodon, either by joining an “instance” hosted by someone else or creating their own instance by running the free, open-source software on a server they control. (See more about this movement and joining...

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@koavf @aloa5 @charles_ex not here with our laws
Dec 21, 2022 at 11:08amWeb
Show threadJoe ❌👑Dec 21, 2022
@msgbi @koavf @aloa5 @charles_ex Depending on where you are, you will have different sets of laws to comply with. Ideally we should be able to point to guides to legal issues for each country. But wherever an instance is hosted, there will be rules about copyright complaints, illegal content like child porn and the like and how this must be handled.
Show threadmsgbiDec 23, 2022
@not2b @koavf @aloa5 @charles_ex Germany extra annoying inside EU. Normal homepage can be subject of lawyers. Recommend organisations... @Ginger149