@FediThing @LeelaTorres @VisualStuart
Being a single-user or private instance doesn't automatically exempt you from legal risks and responsibilities of owning a decentralized content server. If someone posts copyright infringing content, not hosted on your server but still appearing on your URL, a rights holder can come after you for that content. That sort of thing is increasingly likely nowadays that there are so many copyright troll shops issuing automated DMCA notices. Meaning you had better register a DMCA agent (if you reside in the US) if you want to be shielded from those potential lawsuits.
Entertaining substantially worse potential scenarios, if CSAM appears on your server, regardless of whether it is locally hosted or federated content, you must report that content to the required agencies.
If governments or other organizations consider their legal liabilities and still make their own fedi servers, more power to them. But looking at the possibilities there's little surprise to me that many of them go no further than making an account on an existing server and leave those risks to the server operator.
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