I would only ever sign up for an instance that is not subject to it, or does not comply, or at least maliciously complies. And by malicious compliance I mean something where it's implemented in such a "buggy" way that it's easy to bypass.
But really I'd just go for instances hosted outside the EU.
Personally I'd want to see at least some instances behind i2p or tor as it's really the only answer to all the censorship coming.
Doubtful it ever will happen I mean that stuffs had a lot of time to take off and hasn't as yet.
This is precisely the point of literally all the recent new laws regulating online platforms, including this.
To kill smaller ones that can't comply with those laws, so that only large ones remain (if at all) and it is easier to censor and surveil the users there.
I just hope that at some point, people will figure out how wrong politicians of the 2020s were to do all of this, and a new free and open Internet will rise from the ashes as long as any remain.
Small platforms are excluded but don't let that get in the way of your hysteria
Small platforms are excluded today
Yeah that's how laws work, if it included them it would be a different law or a significantly different proposal.
How on earth would the EU possibly do this given the entire structure is federated?
They likely don't even know what Lemmy is.
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