Yeah, oulfis made that distinction in another comment. So with that I wouldn't have any problem being a client in such a system.
I still think it remains an issue, because right now big hosting providers at least in the US have a level of protection that they are not responsible for user content they host as long as they take action as soon as they notice. Smaller servers won't have that protection so their exposure risk will be much higher and they would probably have to really carefully moderate. And in Germany with much less expansive free speech protection it would be even more of a problem to provide a server than in the US, because you are held responsible more (people hosting message boards in Germany have run into legal trouble with this for user posts). And if you need one fan with a server for every 250 fans, a *lot* of fans need to be willing to host for this to scale.
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I still think it remains an issue, because right now big hosting providers at least in the US have a level of protection that they are not responsible for user content they host as long as they take action as soon as they notice. Smaller servers won't have that protection so their exposure risk will be much higher and they would probably have to really carefully moderate. And in Germany with much less expansive free speech protection it would be even more of a problem to provide a server than in the US, because you are held responsible more (people hosting message boards in Germany have run into legal trouble with this for user posts). And if you need one fan with a server for every 250 fans, a *lot* of fans need to be willing to host for this to scale.