How can one configure their Lemmy instance to reject illegal content? And I mean the bad stuff, not just the NSFW stuff. There are some online services that will check images for you, but I’m unsure how they can integrate into Lemmy.
As Lemmy gets more popular, I’m worried nefarious users will post illegal content that I am liable for.
I am not a lawyer and I don’t play one on the internet.
To my understanding the process is only prevented by controlling who can have an account on your instance.
That said, it’s not clear to me how federated content is legally considered.
The only thing I can think of is running a bot on your instance that uses the API of a service such as what you mention to deal with such images.
Your post is the first one I’ve seen recently that is even describing the issue of liability, but it’s in my opinion the single biggest concern that exists in the fediverse and it’s why I’ve never hosted my own instance.