Rules. Community feel. Performance. Geographic location. Just off the top of my head.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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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?
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?
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.
GDPR compliance will only be an issue for EU based instances though I guess. Which rules mine out :)
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)
Hmm interesting. I guess this should go on the dev's todo list, if its not already there.
"The server I registered with might go down" was the reason I made my own instance instead of joining a public one. It was easy, and now I only have to trust myself that the server will stay online, and that the server is up to date and built from the GitHub source without modifications.
Right now, if lemmy.ml goes down, anyone who used that as their "home server" won't be able to log in or interact with Lemmy. So, one factor you might want to think about when joining an instance (or running your own) is, "What's their uptime like?"
In a few days, and then on July 1st, we'll also get to ask, "How well did ___ handle the Reddit exodus?"