Lemmy's Image Problem
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The popular Reddit alternative's user count has grown a lot over the past year. One problem, though: users and admins can't delete images.

Highlighting the recent report of users and admins being unable to delete images, and how Trust & Safety tooling is currently lacking.

  • RubberDuckEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    We can expect them to follow the law. And yes this means implementing required features to comply with the law.

      • @maynarkh@feddit.nlEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        It does apply, but not to the Lemmy devs, but to the instance admins.

        As it stands, you can’t legally host a Lemmy server in either the EU or the US (or places they can reach) and federate with the 'verse at large without fear that the authorities will come after you.

        • @SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
          -2•1 year ago

          This is not true at all, you can host a instance in the USA for free and not be subjective to the GDPR. You’re not selling anything, or marketing anything or doing any data collection to be sold. It %100 does not apply.

          • @maynarkh@feddit.nlEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            GDPR article 3, and the EU-US Data Protection Umbrella Agreement concluded in the US in December 2016 which makes it US law disagree.

              • @maynarkh@feddit.nlEnglish
                1•1 year ago

                Lemmy instances offer services to me as an in-EU data subject, and that makes it subject under the very Article 3/2 (a) you linked.

                the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union

                Since there is federation, a US-based instance would still be a data processor if it IP blocked be as coming from the EU.

                I did in fact read it.