• expr@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    GDPR is really designed to target software controlled by a single entity, but this isn’t that. The instances are responsible for their content, full stop. There’s no way of forcing an instance to delete content, and even if there were, since the admins are running it, there’s nothing stopping them from removing such a feature.

    There’s also nothing stopping admins from deleting content from their servers (it’s just a database, after all).

    • Maalus@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Well then, once the EU knows about Lemmy, it’ll be screwed. Again, you don’t get to make excuses when dealing with GDPR. The book will be thrown at you once you have EU citizen’s data, which lemmy obviously does. Saying “we made this application without it ever being possible to comply with GDPR” will only get you a bigger fine, or worse.