Take this with a grain of salt cause this is just what I’ve heard from a friend who knows a lot more about server hosting than I do, but from what I’ve heard hosting a Matrix homeserver is a potential legal liability unless you’re really selective about who you let on your server cause it stores the entire state of every room a user uses, so all it takes is one friend of a friend to visit a sketchy room where people have shared csam and you could be in trouble.
Assuming this is accurate and not just my friend misunderstanding something or being overly paranoid I could imagine people being very hesitant about hosting their own server rather than just using the default matrix.org server.
This is right. It actually made me wonder how likely it is on xmpp.
Because in public rooms talking about whatever android app all of a sudden you could have some rando come in and drop csam and leave. Then they propagates and Im not sure if the deletion does or not.
I don’t know about public servers, but that’s part of why I self host my own server for me and my mates. We all know each other, and we don’t federate the server with anything else, even though XMPP supports that. The only way for anyone to join is if i send them an invite link, so randos can’t show up.
Take this with a grain of salt cause this is just what I’ve heard from a friend who knows a lot more about server hosting than I do, but from what I’ve heard hosting a Matrix homeserver is a potential legal liability unless you’re really selective about who you let on your server cause it stores the entire state of every room a user uses, so all it takes is one friend of a friend to visit a sketchy room where people have shared csam and you could be in trouble.
Assuming this is accurate and not just my friend misunderstanding something or being overly paranoid I could imagine people being very hesitant about hosting their own server rather than just using the default matrix.org server.
This is right. It actually made me wonder how likely it is on xmpp.
Because in public rooms talking about whatever android app all of a sudden you could have some rando come in and drop csam and leave. Then they propagates and Im not sure if the deletion does or not.
Real big issue IMO.
I don’t know about public servers, but that’s part of why I self host my own server for me and my mates. We all know each other, and we don’t federate the server with anything else, even though XMPP supports that. The only way for anyone to join is if i send them an invite link, so randos can’t show up.