Title says it. Apparently lemmy devs are not concerned with such worldly matters as privacy, or respecting international privacy laws.

  • Silverseren@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    It’s been a problem for a while. Considering major social media companies have already gotten massive fines from the EU for violating the GDPR, maybe the lemmy devs will put more effort in setting up a deletion system once the EU sends them a fine for breaking the law?

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      11 months ago

      The EU doesn’t have global jurisdiction, if an instance developer or admin has no EU presence then they could just ignore them.

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          11 months ago

          “Lemmy” is a piece of software. A piece of software can’t violate the GDPR, it’s just a blob of data. You need to be running a server to do something that would break the GDPR. Those server-running admins are the ones that need to be concerned about their EU presence.

          Maybe some of the people developing Lemmy are in that category and might get in trouble, but it will be because they’re running servers not because they’re developing Lemmy. If they get arrested or whatever it has no effect on Lemmy-the-software.