Interesting - The Wiki article seems to make it out to be less about commercial that the actual links to the articles provided. I’ll keep reading, thank you

Intersting you bring that up copyright. I was looking at Peertube just earlier today and I was wondering how on earth some of the larger instances are dealing with copyright. There is no way they can watch every second of content that gets uploaded

I think you’re right though. Unless you get lucky/unlucky, its highly unlikely your instance is ever going to be used by many people, and therefore for most it’ll probably be a grey area.

If it did however, you need to not only “administer” that instance, both from a front and backend point of view, but there are also things like copyright to deal with.

Very interesting, they actually seem to have thought this aspect through. Fully supportive of the fediverse and wouldn’t ever want to ever scaremonger or push people to not want to hosting their own instance, but with the explosion of Lemmy instances - At a certain point I am guessing someone will want to look into this in more detail.

Whether its a change in regulation or helping people be responsible with data - Holding PID of some kind (in this case emails) does need to be done responsibly