Do you trust your friends to not post illegal things to your server?

You host only data that can be e2e encrypted. Then you don't need to monitor anything because you physically can't.

> You host only data that can be e2e encrypted

Wait, what? Aren't we talking about lemmy? The instance owner absolutely does host, in clear, all of its users' content. What am I missing?

I was talking about self-hosting in general. If you want to are talking about Lemmy in specific: you can host an instance and make it that only admins create communities. This way, your server will not be hosting any files.