• Pennomi
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    111 month ago

    Lemmy also doesn’t have a single owner. It would be crazy hard to comply if each instance had to have their own representative in the EU.

    Or maybe since most Lemmy instances aren’t corporations it doesn’t matter? I bet only a lawyer could say for sure.

    • @General_Effort
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      41 month ago

      Instances that are established in the EU don’t need a representative. Instances outside the EU don’t really need to care. What’s the EU going to do about it? (I am not fully certain if they are in scope, unless they particularly target people in the EU.)

      I doubt the average lawyer would be able to say much. The DSA is not something 99.9% of them will ever encounter. Anyway, it does not matter if the service is run by a corporation or an individual.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 month ago

      Doesn’t really matter if you don’t do business in the EU anyway, and AFAIK, no Lemmy instances are businesses.

      • @General_Effort
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        21 month ago

        If you are outside the EU and don’t receive money from inside the EU, then there is no realistic way in which a fine can be collected. IDK if it is possible to use IP bans, and such, against services that don’t comply with the DSA and other such regulation, but that would still not be something a non-commercial instance would need to worry about.

        But many Lemmy instances are inside the EU, and fines can certainly be collected from them.