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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Show threadDavid ColettaDec 21, 2022

@koavf I found this very helpful thread: https://nitter.net/rahaeli/status/1593819064161665024

Which led me to this CC-licensed DMCA Policy: https://www.dreamwidth.org/legal/dmca

Which I then adapted for my Mastodon instance quakers.social. I made a subdomain for meta stuff like this, and hosted my policy at meta.quakers.social/dmca-policy.

(And I signed up as a DMCA Registered Agent.)

#mastoadmin

rahaeli (@rahaeli)

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://www.copyright.gov/dmca-directory/

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Show threadJustin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿
@dcoletta Beautiful. Thanks for the perspective.
Dec 21, 2022 at 4:27pmWeb