AT proto’s PDS architecture does solve that 👀
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HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 6 months ago
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.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 6 months ago
Has BlueSky implemented federation yet?
iesha_256@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
yes
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
No, but if it did you could control where your data lived
iesha_256@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
wdym they not have federation yet, there are independent servers for every service (e.g. pds, relay, appview, moderation) except for PLC
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 6 months ago
Yeah, if.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 months 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.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 6 months 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.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 months ago
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
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 6 months ago
So how does UK law handle federation?