I’d be really keen to host a lemmy instance but just wondering with GDPR and everything, if there is anything else to consider outside of the technical setup and provisioning of hardware?

Lemmy is storing users data so is there any requirement to do anything GDPR wise?

Hope this is the right place for this - But seen a lot of posts interested in hosting their own lemmy instance, and this is an extension of that

  • RikEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    First of all, I’m not a lawyer or a legal consultant, just a instance admin that wants to make sure that his instance complies.

    Lemmy does not store any PII (birthdates, legal names, addresses,securitynumbers). But users are able to share whatever they want. And that can be a problem.

    Check out my instances legal page: https://Laguna.chat/legal

    In the future I want to make sure that my instances content can only be shared by GDPR respecting instances.