Lemmy

"don't like GDPR"? What's not to like? Best thing that came out of EU regulation in a long time. And as others have noted you seem to be misinformed about what it actually says...

Well, according to GDPR, all personal data from EU users must remain in the EU. And personal data goes really far. Even an IP-address is personal data.

Thankfully, Lemmy instances do not transport this kind of information about their users to other instances!

all personal data from EU users must remain in the EU

Create your account on a EU server, problem solved.

Lemmy (fediverse in general) doesn't send account data away, and posts don't qualify as personal data, when you publish something to the internet, it's public by definition.

I'm not an expert in GDPR and will leave the technical side to those who are, but the fact that the EU actively present at the Fediverse with among others the @EU_Commission represented at their official Mastodon instance, I would be surprised if the GDPR was suddenly weaponised against it.

GDPR was written with the intention of empowering users over corporations. The Fediverse has the same goal.

IMO it's pretty much the same case as email. With email you send data to some remote server which may or may not reside in the EU.

I'm not really sure what argument you can make that fediverse apps but not email break gdpr.

Or even something as simple as putting your email on a public website that may be visited by someone in the US.

Since the entire goal of the fediverse is “transporting” all data to all servers inside the ActivityPub/fediverse world, the data of a EU member will be transported all over the place.

It doesn't work like that, think of your instance being a proxy to the fediverse

FWIW Hacker News just says it doesn't apply to them as it doesn't count as a service for just a discussion board.

But I think the right of deletion is a bigger issue than where email addresses are stored.

Since the entire goal of the fediverse is “transporting” all data to all servers inside the ActivityPub/fediverse world, the data of a EU member will be transported all over the place.

Not all data is transferred to other servers. That's the point where I think you are wrong.
You mention email and IP addresses as examples of personal data covered by GDPR, but that data is not transferred to other instances, only the instance where you registered holds that data. So you would only need to care about the instance where you registered to be GDPR-compliant.

Neil Brown did quite a good write-up on the legal standing of the Fediverse late last year: https://decoded.legal/blog/2022/11/notes-on-operating-fediverse-services-mastodon-pleroma-etc-from-an-english-law-point-of-view

There's a section part way down about GDPR, but the answer is "it depends"

What do y’all thing about this?

This is why I won't ever run any web service with public registration.

The people hosting an instance are responsible for the informed consent. So if you federate with anyone you need to make sure to inform your individual users about all of your peers, what data they process, and who's the contact for that peer.

This is of course impossible.

If anyone ever sues you, they probably effortlessly win the lawsuit.

"Exchange with non-compliant platforms can be restricted based on a case-by-case analysis. ": I quote this from an article from European data protection supervisor website https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-work/publications/techdispatch/2022-07-26-techdispatch-12022-federated-social-media-platforms_en. I think the platform will evolve to solve the existing issues such as The right to be forgotten.

I‘m in the EU and if I would host an instance here anyway I‘d do it somewhere with less restrictive laws and ideally anonymous. Mostly cause I like piracy though.

Kbin.social and feddit.de are hosted in Germany. That's why I signed up there.