> because a pedo instance could federate illegal content to my homeserver and get me arrested and charged for possession of content I did not request and do not

> because a pedo instance could federate illegal content to my homeserver and get me arrested and charged for possession of content I did not request and do not want to store on my computers, and if I'm not monitoring what content is getting federated to my timeline, I might not even know it's there. Too risky. I also work in the activitypub space and my solution to avoiding unlawful content is to make the "federating" relationship between two servers a mutual one. One asks to follow, the other replies favourably (or not). This puts a damper on the "wild west" of everyone federating with everyone, but ensures content is curated at a basic level by a SysOP so there are no surprises.