As this project appears to be fairly unknown in the fediverse still, I’d like to use this opportunity to advertise Flohmarkt. This Fediverse equivalent of Facebook Marketplace already has some instances up and running - see here: https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wiki/flohmarkt-instances
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No matter where the site is operated from, as long as EU citizens can access it from their home countries?
Because I doubt that even fb marketplace can muster that with plausible accuracy. Especially the sales. When you take something down on marketplace it will ask if you sold it or not, but you can just tell it to mind its own business and say “no I totally just changed my mind”
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The thing is that since all content is federated, each government would have to ask every single instance worldwide for user data. Seems unenforceable.
@Emmie @Temperche
IANAL but: researching this topic was indeed a task during the first year of the project. The German implementation of DAC7 (the PStTG) includes an exception for digital black boards like flohmarkt. The criterion is that there is no formal form of forming a contact on the platform itself. Here’s the official statement (see 1.1) https://www.bzst.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Digitale_Plattformbetreiber/FAQ_PStTG.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=3
bonus: you’ll will find many more hillariously unpronouncable words in this document.
Does your EU-country has exceptions?
@Emmie @Temperche might need to add that the exception is implicit. we’ve always argued that way before we knew this FAQ. until it came to our attention we just weren’t sure because, well, we’re no lawyers, duh :)