The more you know! It seems the best way to learn is still by saying the wrong thing online

You aren’t hosting any of the images from federated instances, so legally you should be fine. I do agree that the clutter from them can be a huge pain though, and I don’t see many users from those instances involved in SFW conversion

Just a reminder that nothing on the Fediverse is private. Because of the distributed nature, anyone with an instance can scrape everything you’ve ever posted and this is working as intended.

Direct messages are readable to whoever is hosting your instance and the instance of the person you send them to.

Be careful what you share on the Fediverse and be careful what you share when setting up an account