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A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.
Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".
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I thought I saw posts on here from some people suggesting that there were issues with EU law and requirements to be able to delete old messages, which is impossible due to fediverse structure.
Did that get resolved or was that person wrong?
The question hasn't been legally tested, it's no more certain now than it was before.
While it might be the case that the EU could come down on a user's main instance for not deleting everywhere, really it's no different to anywhere else - any app that uses an API or even just a simple scraper can get comments that a user posts, so as with those it could also simply fall to the user to go around each and every instance and request deletion. Arguably, the Fediverse is better than this because it does include a facility for deleting things from a host instance - the only issue is that the other instance might not necessarily follow that (as instances don't necessarily run pure lemmy code, in fact they could run anything).
I thought the EU was in the process of carving out an exception for non-profit organizations