Bluesky said it’s working to comply with European Union rules after the bloc accused the fast-growing social media platform of flouting its digital regulations.
“All platforms in the EU have to have a dedicated page on their websites where it says how many user numbers they have in the EU and where they are legally established,”
I think that’s standard on mastodon and pleroma instances.
Under the DSA, platforms with more than 45 million users in the bloc qualify as “very large online platforms” and need to follow stricter content moderation rules under the commission’s supervision.
Clearly defined rules? How interesting… but moderation is a thing on the fediverse so, meh… maybe mastodon.social has to worry about it.
Smaller platforms are still required to comply with the law, but are regulated by the EU country where they have a legal presence. That’s so far unclear in the case of Bluesky, which was created expressly to avoid a centralized ownership structure.
And yet they’re not decentralized yet… if ever. Anyway, servers are physical.
A while back i was looking for instances in the EU and while a few claimed to be from a few different countries, their servers were all in Helsinki…
I think that’s standard on mastodon and pleroma instances.
Clearly defined rules? How interesting… but moderation is a thing on the fediverse so, meh… maybe mastodon.social has to worry about it.
And yet they’re not decentralized yet… if ever. Anyway, servers are physical.
A while back i was looking for instances in the EU and while a few claimed to be from a few different countries, their servers were all in Helsinki…
A lot of instances are hosted by Hetzner which has servers in Germany and Finland. Although that might not be what they mean by “legal presence”.
That’s what i thought, but what does it count as legal presence?
I can be a company with headquarters in France and using Hetzner as my provider, the server i use being in Finland. Do i follow french law or both?
Not a lawyer.