Jan PenfratWith all the new #Mastodon instances spun up those past weeks, I think it's time to start looking into legal obligations for (EU-based) admins. I'm thinking #DSA, #GDPR, #TERREG, #CopyrightDirective,...
Maybe what we need is something like a non-profit legal advice & defence cooperative for #Fediverse admins.
Nemo_bis 🌈@ilumium Do you mean the cooperative would also be a sort of "fiscal sponsor", hosting those instances in the name of the admins in order to limit their legal liability?
I think Finland could be a suitable jurisdiction for such an effort, the law is very favourable. (I'd be happy to help.)
https://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/kaannokset/2001/en20011488.pdf
Members would need to have some minimum alignment with each other, as every one admin's mistakes may cost all the shared assets.
Leo Sammallahti@LeoSammallahti @nemobis Thanks for those ideas and kind offers to help. I was more thinking along the lines of an independent fund financed by foundations and other donors that would help admins who are being sued unfairly with financial and legal resources. Would that make sense?
@ilumium Would that fund need to have a secret amount of money for its war chest, for strategic reasons, like the noyb reserves? It's a tricky balance to set it up in a way that doesn't *invite* lawsuits.