To be fair, this is a bug that could be the end of lemmy. As soon as one malicious actor sues even a few instance admins, other will get scared and shut down their instances. As the reporter points out, this isn’t just a shiny feature that’s missing. Instance admins lack the ability to follow data protection requirements that their users have a right to. It’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.
I agree commenting that post under every issue was a dick move.
I found it interesting how the maintainers reacted to these issues.
Would you mind if we set some of your priorities also? You’re asking us to do free labor for you, that you’re unwilling to do yourself. Do not put ultimatums and demands on people making FOSS, or I won’t hesitate to block you from these repos.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4433#issuecomment-1939275302
I’ve looked at the webpage, a blog post “How I use HackMD in FOSS”, the intro to the documentation, the features page in the documentation, and I still can’t find out what this thing is supposed to be doing. Is it a wiki? Is it a tool to extract documentation from source code?
The fines are only proportional for big corporations. Organizations without revenue can still be fined:
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/
In this case, the processing of data hinges upon the data subject’s consent, which is detailed in article 7.
Imagine a car manufacturer building cars without brakes and then saying ‘This isn’t a problem for the engineers, but for the retailers’. Of course the developers can’t be sued for this. But that’s not the point! The point is that this bug or missing feature or whatever you want to call it jeopardizes the admins upon which this whole ecosystem hinges. I can’t believe that that’s in the devs’ best interests.