If you can subscribe to communities on other instances than the one you're registered with, why register on one vs another? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by foxtrot@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[-] lodion@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years 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.de 1 points 2 years ago

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

[-] makanimike@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[-] lodion@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

GDPR compliance will only be an issue for EU based instances though I guess. Which rules mine out :)

[-] makanimike@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

not true :)
any EU citizen signing up on your server is still protected by GDPR.

this is why many US based sites decided to just not bother and cut off EU visitors to their sites (I mainly run into this with news sites)

[-] lodion@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Hmm interesting. I guess this should go on the dev's todo list, if its not already there.

[-] makanimike@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

do bees be?

[-] makanimike@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

do bees be?

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