What the Russmedia ruling means for ActivityPub and atproto.

  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip
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    15 days ago

    Ah, so it’s your blog. Thanks for acknowledging that these are indeed just your thoughts right now.

    But - maybe you can see it from the comments: people take it further and next thing you know they post “GDPR made Fediverse illegal” or some such bullshit.

    That’s the power of publication. Not necessarily a good thing.

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      15 days ago

      yeah i get what you mean, its been something ive been thinking about. the title itself is already deliberate, because the legal problem already exists: while it is uncertain what the Russmedia ruling does for federation and social platforms regarding GDPR, that uncertainty itself already does pose a major problem.

      in the article itself i have an entire section on the uncertainty, and what might limit Russmedia’s reach. A lot actually hinges on what the outcome of the Kunast case will be.

      thats why i published it now, and with this title. Because right now federation does have a legal problem, with the problem being the uncertainty itself. After Kunast there might either be a much bigger problem (Russmedia confirmed to generalise to social platforms) or a much smaller problem