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Federation means any content posted to any federated instance gets cached on your side and you become a hoster of it.
This includes if someone posts or creates an instance for child porn and starts spamming it. You're possibly liable. and then have to deal with reviewing and cleaning it up to cover your ass.
I'd love to support the fediverse but this sounds like a huge hassle and a problem. Maybe it's just me though, I'm glad that there are others that have decided to host instances.
I never thought I'd be a registered CSAM reporter with the feds, but then I decided to host public content via Lemmy. Turns out, while 99.9% of users are great or fine, that 0.1% are just assholes for the sake of being assholes
This is why I decided not to host an instance in the end. Where I live, the laws are such that the hoster is responsible for the content hosted on their servers So if some shitbag posts CP that gets synced to my server and the authorities somehow find out, it would seriously fuck up my life.
Not only do people avoid creating instances for this reason, but several previously existing instances shut down as a result, like DMV.social.
SO CSAM can be used as tool for suppressing
Obviously, and as always has been. Bullying behaviors *work", or people (& animals) would not bother to expend the effort.
That's a hellva mentally damaged threat actor but I guess it is effective...
So how we know these are not a state doing it or let's say social media competitors against each other?
We don't know who is being it... how would we even? Or someone gets banned, doesn't appreciate that, and retaliates. They do what they want, we do what we must.