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@rudi@tyrol.social  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

Fediverse trust building

Looking for a suitable Pixelfed instance for an intl organization I realized that the vast majority of pixelfed servers do not specify who is running the instance. They all have "terms" but hardly any of them states who is on the other side of the "legally binding terms". Extremely few instances have an imprint.
With mastodon the situation is less bad but still far from inspiring confidence.

Sure, most people don't care about legal noise. Neither do I. It would improve people's trust in the fediverse, though, if every instance would tell its potential users who they are.

#pixelfed #fediverse #legal #trust
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@FediTips@social.growyourown.services  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

@rudi

The long-running Pixelfed instance https://pixelfed.de has an "impressum" as required by German law, which gives the name as well as a public postal address, phone and email for the lead administrator: https://pixelfed.de/site/legal-notice

However, most countries don't have these kinds of impressum legal requirements, which is probably why this is so rare.

Another approach if it's a large organisation is to start their own instance through e.g. https://weingaertner-it.de/index.php/produkt-kategorie/pixelfed-hosting

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