Comment on Lemmy's Image Problem
Maalus@lemmy.world 11 months agoIs it entitlement if it’s making using the entire thing illegal everywhere? Since there is no tooling to block traffic from the EU / not federate with instances that don’t comply with GDPR?
CeeBee@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No. It’s the dev’s project. They can do whatever they want with it. They can delete the repo and go live in the woods if they want.
To be clear, I don’t agree with the stance they have taken. But I also see the kind of reactions there are far from what people are making it out to be. I think the people complaining about the devs being “mean” are just hypersensitive and have never been told “no” their whole lives.
Like I said, I disagree with the devs’ position to not implement this feature. It’s been highly requested, and for good reason. But this is a free project. If they say no, then it’s no. If we don’t like that decision, then maybe we need to move somewhere else.
It sucks but sometimes that’s life.
Maalus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t care if they are mean. The app isn’t GDPR compliant. That’s what matters.
CeeBee@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fine, that’s what matters. Then ask them to implement it or write it yourself.
And if they say no, then that’s your answer and Lemmy instances within the EU will need to move out of the EU or just shut down.
Maalus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They can’t be in the EU or the US. That cuts like 99% of them off. That’s exactly my point - they don’t want to implement something that makes the app illegal with 99% of the userbase being from there.