So if I understand GDPR correctly: If I want a service/business to remove all my personal data, they have to comply with it in a certain timespan or get in trouble with the law.

If I understand federation correctly: All posts get replicated on federated instances all over the fediverse.

My question: If I e.g. want lemmy.world to remove my data, all my posts etc are still up on lemmy.ml right? As they just have a copy of these posts?

Would I as a customer have to contact every single instance to get my data removed? Or how does GDPR compliance work with lemmy?

Or am I completely misunderstanding how GDPR works?

  • Firipu@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That sounds like a good take. I have no idea if it’s correct, but it sounds reasonable.

    So I’d have to contact every single instance to get rid of my data, which sounds reasonable, but is practically speaking absolutely impossible.

    Lemmy just sounds like a GDPR nightmare for the EU tbh.