This CEPS guide assesses the Fediverse in light of the EU Digital Services Act (DSA)
" ... The DSA applies to fediverse services and characterises each instance as a platform. But there are two pressure points in applying the DSA to the fediverse:
i) the decentralisation of server hosts results in a number of small organisations hosting instances, which means that exempting small and micro enterprises could lead to compliance gaps; and
ii) the federation of services makes it more difficult on how to count the active users of services, since content is able to spread beyond one service and across platforms, thus potentially over- or underestimating the systemic risk of fediverse platforms.
This Explainer advocates that federated platforms need to engage closely with the DSA and work together on a strategy to ensure compliance. On top of this, the methodology for classifying VLOPs needs to be revisited so that the systemic risk of federated platforms can be accurately evaluated and then the responsibility for mitigating said risk is properly assigned. ..."
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