Comment on The crusade against Lemmy devs, lemmy.ml, and so-called "tankies"
Skavau@piefed.social 7 hours agoWhy? Genuine question. I’m not a lawyer or have any legal training, but what would stop the Lemmy devs sue someone for distorting their statements with the purpose of damaging their reputation and making them lose income, if they wanted to? I don’t believe they’re the type that would do that, but I’m not aware of anything that would stop it. I’m not saying something that would stop them from doing that doesn’t exist, just that I’m not aware of it.
Because the entire fediverse has a net active user pool of 40k users. Moreover, the lemmy devs have no idea who anyone who might be diaparaging their instance is. They could literally be anywhere in the world. Do you genuinely think its worth their time at all?
Cricket@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
No, I don’t think it would be worth their time and I also don’t think that they’re the types who would be inclined to resort to that in the first place. My point is that those posts expose the poster and the instance admins to action, if someone were litigious and lived in a litigious society that facilitated this.
Skavau@piefed.social 7 hours ago
It would also help if they actually had a name even if they were rather than just some user account from who-knows-where.
Cricket@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Like I mentioned, I’m not a lawyer and have no legal training, but it seems to me that someone could legally force an instance to at a minimum provide IP logs, email addresses, etc.
Skavau@piefed.social 6 hours ago
VPNs, throwaway emails