"enables recipients who access the service through an account to transmit content in real-time to an indeterminate number of other recipients of the service, including through live streaming of audio-visual content;"
"enables recipients who access the service through an account to contact, communicate and otherwise interact with other recipients of the service not part of the recipient's pre-existing connections or subscriptions;"
"uses a recommender system which is based on profiling as defined in Article 4, point (4), of Regulation (EU) 2016/679;"
Easy. No profiling. I guess we get that for free on fedi anyway.
"uses a recommender system suggesting or prioritising to a recipient who accesses the service through an account contact suggestions or information that has not been provided by one of the recipient’s pre-existing connections or subscriptions;"
"deploys or presents functionalities, interface designs or characteristics which are intended, or can reasonably be foreseen, to enable uninterrupted content consumption, that incentivise interactions with the service or with content or other recipients of the service, or that transmit automated notifications designed to prompt the user to initiate or resume use of the service."
No endless auto-loading feed and no annoying "we haven't seen you for a while" notifications. Gotcha.
This is a Hot Take™, and there is a lot of possible nuance here. But the way things are written, it seems to me kinda sorta possible to create fedi instances that would not be required to do age verification at all.
Obviously, we should not comply in advance with this BS at all. Instead, we should push back against EU Kids Act.
But it is genuinely interesting to me to see how fedi could maybe avoid being caught in largely by many things that are already available or obvious on fedi.
@mkljczk I don't know, recommendation algorithms and profiling and endless feed and notifications designed to pull you back in seem like a good riddance to me. 🤷♀️
