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Anything else to consider when hosting a Lemmy instance in the EU? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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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

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[–] danieljackson 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Everybody is talking about the GPDR, but the GPDR when hosting in the EU, should be the least if your concerns. As I said elsewhere:

Lemmy is not doing tracking/personalized-ads.
Lemmy is only collecting IPs and email addresses as personally identifiable information. It's not sharing them. So it makes GDPR compliance easy.

The real issue is Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market which is a nightmare if you want to host lemmy legally. Realistically, the government don't care about a few copyright infrigement by some guy/gal hosting a lemmy instance in their garage.

But, if you want to follow the law to the letter, the EU doesn't have any fair use. So theorically, you need to allow users to only post creative commons images, with attribution. Or do some copyright checks on the content posted on your instance. Here is an EU video on how to comply with the directive, it's a nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Intersting you bring that up copyright. I was looking at Peertube just earlier today and I was wondering how on earth some of the larger instances are dealing with copyright. There is no way they can watch every second of content that gets uploaded

I think you're right though. Unless you get lucky/unlucky, its highly unlikely your instance is ever going to be used by many people, and therefore for most it'll probably be a grey area.

If it did however, you need to not only "administer" that instance, both from a front and backend point of view, but there are also things like copyright to deal with.