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[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't see how it wouldn't apply to Lemmy, since the exposure draft expressly includes 'content aggregation services.'

What's not clear is who would be liable for potential breaches. All the liability seems to fall on the 'digital platform provider' meaning ' a person who provides a digital platform service.' That's easy to determine for a centralised corporate entity like Reddit or Twitter, but who is providing Lemmy? Is it the person who owns the server? It doesn't seem broad enough to include mods.

[–] billstickers@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Definitely apply to Lemmy. But Lemmy isn’t a website itself. It’s more like a protocol. So each server owner will be responsible. I didn’t think to look and too late at night for me now, but I wonder how the law would work with federation. Is Aussie.zone only responsible for the local communities or is each site responsible for their All streams. I suppose that’s a benefit of being able to defederate. And the mainline Lemmy communities seem really good in this regard.

I’d more worry about keeping to the industry code of practice and the record keeping aspects and being in breach that way.