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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

Actually I wonder if the end result would end up essentially being, you can only federate with other GDPR compliant instances that you trust will respect the GDPR and honor federated data delete requests.

The core of the issue is that just by the virtue of running, an instance collects a stupid amount of data. I was baffled at how many user accounts my instance had discovered mere hours after starting it up.

Edit: row counts after just a week of running my private instance with only 3 users:

The profiling potential is scary, so users should be really careful with basically every interaction on the Fediverse, including votes. I bet the feds are having a field day monitoring what's going on on exploding-heads and lemmygrad.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (15 children)

IANAL but no, as instances do not share "personal data". There is a misconception that GDPR deletion requests apply to all data created by a user, but to my understanding it only applies to "personal data" as defined here: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/what-personal-data_en

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Interestingly, they're clearly aware of the existence of the Fediverse: https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-work/publications/techdispatch/2022-07-26-techdispatch-12022-federated-social-media-platforms_en