Darnell (Seize The Day)

Image Credit: Misskey Mascot @ai@misskey.io (an interesting bot account), via Misskey

The main Misskey server at Misskey.io is experiencing yet another round of growing pains, as the Misskey creator @syuilo@misskey.io revealed.

(via Google Translate) Misskey.io is increasing at a pace of 20,000 people a day (from Syuilo)

This is awesome! Currently Misskey is the second most popular platform in the Fediverse (after Mastodon).

Unfortunately it appears that main Misskey server in Japan is following Threads lead & will begin to heavily discourage residents of the European Union from signing up on their servers in due to the pending General Data Protection Regulation laws (GDPR).

The reason we don't accept usage under the GDPR is because we've had users who demanded that we delete everything, including backups and data from other instances. That's just unreasonable, and apparently, GDPR doesn't allow for the costs of handling such requests to be charged. If you don't make any deletion requests or assert any rights under the GDPR, there's no problem with using our service from the EU or the UK. (Although, officially, it's prohibited.) (...)

We checked with a lawyer, but there aren't many in Japan who know GDPR inside out, and we didn't get a clear answer from government agencies either. So, to prevent similar issues in the future, we added GDPR restrictions. But anyway, it's totally irrelevant to the general public. (via @AureoleArk@misskey.io responding on Misskey.io)

GDPR will be a thorny issue with many social networking sites, especially if they allow ads to be displayed upon their site.

For what it is worth, Misskey.io does display unobtrusive ads on their site to help pay the server bill, although they are also seeking donations on PayPal & Paetreon to help keep the lights on (I am currently donating $10 per month to Misskey).

Note: My personal objections to GDPR are mainly cosmetic as (according to legal minds I conversed with) my solo instances require a script blocking pop up asking for user consent before any scripts load on the website (I utterly loathe popups!!!!).

Although Misskey will probably enjoy rapid growth outside of the European Union, their lack of EU embrace could help propel future growth for Firefish (previously known as Calckey), which is a Misskey fork created by @kainoa@firefish.social (their flagship server is Firefish).

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