I am new and trying to understand how Lemmy works. I am posting this from my lemmy.world account, on a lemmy.ml community. It seems like you can read, post, subscribe to whatever community outside of the instance you’re registered with. So… Why register on lemmy.world vs lemmy.ml or any other instance, if all communities are accessible to everyone?

  • makanimike@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    what about jurisdiction? is that a factor?
    Could I, an EU citizen, say, I really want to extra failsafe and benefits of GDPR by signing up on an instance based in an EU country, with a server inside an EU country, abiding EU laws and standard of privacy protection? Is that a thing? Or is the lemmy ecosystem a lawless wild west?

    • Lodion 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
      1·
      1 year ago

      Currently… all very new and I’d say more like the latter. I’m not a lawyer, but I assume GDPR has exemptions for non-business ventures?

      • krnpnk@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        As far as I know the exceptions are only for personal use (whatever that means)

      • makanimike@feddit.de
        1·
        1 year ago

        I don’t think so. Not in Germany anyway. If you are a service for the general public, I am pretty sure you still have to follow GDPR. Same goes for liability, I assume. The person who is running a server would be liable for whatever content is shared on it…?

        But yeah… I think this is a big question to be tackled now that growth is shooting upwards… fwiw, coincidentally, the German based feddit is asking this same question, I just saw right after posing the question: https://feddit.de/c/fedi_ds

        ETA: ah, the legal section of feddit (where I signed up) covers the GDPR part very well. Excellent! That’s one of the biggest benefits vs. reddit: EU based servers.