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 threadMary OliviaDec 22, 2022

@koavf Thanks for this!

Would you happen to know anyone I could ask about running a proxy for my prospective instance-dwellers in the event they need to file a DMCA or counter-DMCA? It's difficult to do as an individual without revealing your address, so I've always absently dreamed of running some sort of artist's co-op that pitched in together to fund an authorized representative for that stuff.

Show threadJustin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿
@amalgamary As a non-lawyer and altogether ignorant person, no. Thinking out loud, some leads may be to start here: https://www.eff.org/pages/legal-assistance or even find a state that is amenable to forming LLCs with minimal reporting for ownership, such as (as I recall) Wyoming. Not the best advice, but I hope that is useful. :/
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