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I feel like this is going to become a problem with federation in the future. A Mastodon instance is hosting content outside of its control that may or may not comply with its internal policies or local law. Is that instance protected legally? Likely not.

It would likely be treated the same way as auto forwarding an email would be treated.

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dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
AT proto’s PDS architecture does solve that 👀

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- HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Has BlueSky implemented federation yet?
  
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  - dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    No, but if it did you could control where your data lived
    
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    HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yeah, if.
    
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    iesha_256@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    wdym they not have federation yet, there are independent servers for every service (e.g. pds, relay, appview, moderation) except for PLC
    
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  - iesha_256@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    yes
    
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Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I don’t know. You may be generally already protected to some degrees by existing laws for users interacting with your site. This time it’s just users interacting with your site via another server. If you defederate from bad instances and have a good DMCA system, you might be okay.

Although, this type of thing could be one of those things that’ll take a court case or updated legislation to solve.

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- HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  IANAL, but most law that I’ve heard of regarding third party content requires the site hosting the content to conform to takedown notices issued. So, having a good DCMA system requires you to be able to take down content from instances that may not be bad, but governed differently.
  
  As for the law “catching up with” federation sites, I don’t see that happening unless Mastodon and Lemmy start creating massive lobbying arms.
  
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  - Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    As for the law “catching up with” federation sites, I don’t see that happening unless Mastodon and Lemmy start creating massive lobbying arms.
    
    Forgot that’s how America worked.
    
    In the UK, you could just keep making noise until a member of parliament gets interested and mentions it once
    
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    HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    So how does UK law handle federation?
    
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